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Nsenga kalimba: "Taiad Mwanza's Kalimba"

D (closest chromatic pitch)
14
Extracted from recording.
unknown
Mawilili village, Petauke Dist., Zambia
Nsenga
1961
The audio samples were directly extracted from John Blacking's recordings of Taiad Mwanza's on the "Music from Petauke of Northern Rhodesia Vol.2" album. On each sample I've tried to remove as many spectral components of other notes played at the same time as possible.
LU7 and RU1' keys (in Pitch.1 notation) are not in the recordings and were synthesized from their octave counterparts.

Key Fundamental
1, 147,3 Hz
3, 182 Hz
5, 223 Hz
6, 249,3 Hz
7, 274 Hz
1 300 Hz
2 341,3 Hz
3 378,5 Hz
4 409,1 Hz
5 454,1 Hz
5 (other hand) 460 Hz
6 512,9 Hz
7 unknown
1' unknown
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