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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