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LOGGER'S SHEET LOGGER: Priscilla Hill REEL NUMBER: 1 STAGE: workshop performance D.C. DATE: 24 June 1987 PRESENTOR: Kazadi wamakuna GROUP NAME: Djimo Kouyate Region\style: Manduiqo Griof music wash, D.C. | 2 column table]] | PERFORMER(S) | INSTRUMENT\OCCUPATION | | Djimo Kouyate | 1. Kora, 2. Balafon, 3. Drum (mandingo) | CONTENTS #1 12:44p.m 1. Selection instrumental and a story in song by D. Kouyate just like he does at home. 12:46 2. tape ran out, so I changed it to side B at 12:46 might have not gotten all of this performance. 3. D. Kouyate talked about the kora which is played by 4. the mandingo people of west Africa. The Kora has 5. 21 strings, 10 on the left hand side and 11 on the 6. right hand side. He remarked that west Africa 7. has 57 different languages and each performer tunes it to his particular language at the time 8. it is being played. 9. #2 10. Selection on the Balafone tuned to the mandingo language, this was an instrumental vocal perf. by 11. D. Kouyate. D. Kouyate paused to display the 12. soundboard on the underside of Balafone, 13. he explained how each individual has to make his own instrument, because he could not go to the store to purchase one, they are not sold in stores. He stated that he had personally made this particular instrument,