Kongoi Maitoling

Title: Kongoi Maitoling
Performer / Recordist: Cherondet Arap Ng'asura; Tracey, Hugh
Subject: Kipsigis (African people); Folk music--Kenya; Folk music; Field recordings
Description / content note: A love song in which English words, 'my darling' have been transmogrified into Kipsigis "maitoling" He also calls her little 'calf', a term of great endearment in a pastoral such as these. The singer starts with whistling. The instrument on which this is played is a Chepkongo six string lyre, with one string removed in order to turn it into a five string Kibungandet which uses a different pentatonic scale. Love song with Chepkong 6 string bowl lyre and whistling.
Type / form: sound recordings; field recordings; sound recording-musical
Language: Kipsigis
Place of recording: Africa, Sub-Saharan; Africa Kenya Sotik
Publisher: International Library of African Music (ILAM)
Date recorded: 1950
Date issued / published: 1950
Identifier: TR165; 1
Is Format Of: Analog reel item
Duration (time): 00:02:36
File format: wav
Sample Rate: 15 ips reel
Digitisation (original): 96000Hz 24Bit Stereo; Studer B67 Recorder; Sound Forge V.6
Rights Holder: International Library of African Music
License: CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Access Rights: Public
Is Part Of: ILAM Hugh Tracey Sound of Africa Series
Format: audio/mp3
Genre: field recordings
handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/177381