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Njari without LT manual: "TIC 140"
Reference Key:
F (closest chromatic pitch)
Key Count:
26
Sound Info:
Buzzers dampened.
Maker:
Zenze
Place Made:
Mutoko, Zimbabwe
Origin:
Budya
Made in/before:
1932
Comments:
From Andrew Tracey's Mbira Catalogue:
Njari, BUDYA
Coll HT c 1932 from Zenze at Mutoko.
Africana Museum no: 52/116.
Mubvamaropa wood. Tray body.
HTT: "The two lowest notes are tuned by their overtones to the two highest".
Yes, but I disagree that they are tuned to the top notes, it's chance, the fundamentals are the tuning notes, although not well in tune. Tunings below are HTT's own.
HTT genealogy of player:
Mutoko-Ndebele
Mutoko-Muhongwe
Mutoko
Mutoko
Mutoko
From ILAM's Instrument Inventory:
Two colour wood, tray body with walls H: 205, W: at bottom 180. 26 keys in each rank.
Home-made carrying string. Rattle plate with 11 snail shell rattles.
Coll. HT early 1930s from Zenze [person] at Mutoko.
HT’s tuning: two lowest notes are tuned by their overtones to the two highest, tuning from bottom
madada – 130, 142, 146, 160,
mbira – 178, 194, 216, 240, 264
whenero – 292, 320
mitudza 356, 388, 432, 480, 528, 584, 640,
mitudza are duplicated on both sides,
Active worm now fixed, I hope.
Last known owner:
ILAM
Owner Contact:
Please
get in touch.
Last known location:
Grahamstown, South Africa
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