The Basutos : or, twenty-three years in South Africa (1861)
Casalis, Eugène Arnaud, b. 1812 · London, J. Nisbet · leaf 195
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS. 149 vibrate; a shrill nasal sound is produced, not unlike those drawn from a clarionet by a novice. I was near forgetting the tumo, a small bow some- thing like the lesiba, but still more curved ; it has no … wThich the performer strikes the cord. playing the tumo. The sound swells as it passes through the hollow of the calabash, and can be varied to a certain degree by touching the cord at different heights. It is related that Gai'ka, chief of the Amakosas, on seeing an English lady at her piano, told…
Sotho (African people)
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