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normally played wedding, circumcisions, harvesting ceremonies
lydia - teaches dance steps (audience participation) to abokano?
=Nya - titi = sister instrument (daughter of the clan and a jealous one of that!
(SP?)
Same array of strings
Made of fig tree, bridges papayas, podo (SP?) 
Made of soft wood
- Takes 1 cow to make 1 instrument,
skin of cow (neck)
- Banana tree bark
- Strings made of finishing line (now nylon)
- Deeper sound than obokano, # of bridges differs (obo=8, nyatiti = 2)
- 2 instruments play together
(song about _ sweetest banana) -> beautiful lady
Egu su kali (SP?)
Discussion of project is UK reconstructing the lyre of UR (6700 yrs. ago)
same basic instrument - shipped to Kenya
Comparison of 2 instruments' sounds
(sound sample_)
- Discussion of tuning (5 notes, 8 string) pentatonic scale
Instrument of singing praise -old style, play was block, bells & instrument         
4 ladies strings (3 diff. players); due to econos. they combined
1 meng beag & sister into a 1 man band)
1 make string (soprccno)
cockerel)
11 Titi string
(clam)
- Metal ring also played w/ another instrument called nyangaylang (SP)
- people in today Iraq also play these same lyres (only along Nile, no further Lake Victoria)
- Song sample - cote gero (SP?) from movie the constant gardener which he wrote