Instrumental music: stringed instruments.
a) Song with galinga earth bow, played by Tshitereke Mbengeni of Magidi in 1958. (0:45)
b) A rare performance by a man on lugube musical bow, by Aaron Mulaudzi of Tshakhuma in 1956; followed by a version of the public song of the boys’ circumcision school (murundu) performed by a group of girls at Tshivhambe in 1956, accompanied on lugube by Nyamukamadi. (0:55)
c) A well-known song for tshihwana musical bow played by Thivhiliheni Ne-Thengwe in 1958. The string broke and could not be satisfactorily repaired. The song is Tshidudu tsha makhulu Matodzi (“The small clay pot for my grandmother Matodzi”). (0:25)
d) A song with tshidzholo one-stringed fiddle by Gena Mohali, a Pedi who lived in Tshakhuma in 1956. (0:30)
e) A song with dende musical bow (see HM, illus. following p. 50), by Ramudzuli Magadagela in 1956 at Phiphidi. (1:00)
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