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Njari without LT manual: "TIC 139"

G (closest chromatic pitch)
27
Buzzers dampened.
Mundiwa
Murehwa, Zimbabwe
Zezuru
1933
From Andrew Tracey's Mbira Catalogue:
Njari, ZEZURU
Coll HT May 1933 from Mundiwa, Murehwa district.
Played together with Kwaramba's njari (missing?), notes are named the same. R little finger hole.
Note names and tuning taken from HT's description of Kwaramba's mbira.

From ILAM's Instrument Inventory:
Tray body with sides, dark wood, well used, patina. , H: 207, W: at bottom 187.
Brass bar, brass wire coiled around fixing wire at back. 27 keys incl. 13 in upper rank.
Three old snail shells and chain now hanging from finger hole. Remains of home-made string in left ear.
Rattle plate held with leather and old string.
Collected by Hugh Tracey from Mundiwa (person).
The instrument was later accessioned into the Kirby Collection (Kirby Collection identifier: KK194), and then loaned to the Africana Museum (now Museum Africa), Johannesburg, South Africa.
In 1969 it was given back to Hugh Tracey by the the Africana Museum and became part of the Tracey Instrument Collection.
Coll HT early 1930s from Mundiwa, at Murewa.
Should be info on it in an article in African Music 'The mbira family of instruments in Rhodesia (1932)'

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