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(mellow music)

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Hello again, it's Kofi
Anang again, from Ghana.

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Now, today, I am having fun introducing

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all these instruments to you guys

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Today I brought an unusual instrument

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from South Africa.

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This is a... this particular one

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that I have here is from Zimbabwe

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and it's called Mbira.

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Now, Mbira,

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has got a new form of Mbira

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here called Kalimba.

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And I will introduce that after
I introduce the Mbira to you

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And this is what it
looks like, in the front,

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it's wood, solid wood

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with metal keys on it.

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Now, a long time ago, when it started,

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the keys weren't metal.

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They were made up of bamboo,

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bamboo keys we used before
we started using metal.

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So this is an old type of instrument.

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A long time ago, when they're playing,

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even now, some people
tune it to their voices.

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So it's an in a pentatonic scale

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it's not in a European scale.

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And that's Mbira.

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And now some people tune
it into different keys

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and stuff like that.

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But before, people
tuned it to their voices

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so they can sing with it.

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Mainly, what they use this Mbira to do is

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to tell stories with them.

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They play, most of the
players tell stories,

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and this is what accompanies their story.

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I'm gonna play you a
short song that I created

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on this Mbira.

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(melodious overtones)

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(rhythmic melodies)

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Okay, not to forget

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I would like to remind you

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this is what we call a selfish instrument.

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Usually to play it, to
entertain a large audience,

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You have to put in a gourd

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to resonate the sound,
to make the sound bigger.

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But I didn't bring a gourd today

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to put it in.

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So you can see that it's very soft.

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So only the player can
really enjoy the real music.

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When you are sitting far away,

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you can really barely hear...

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you can hear, but you can barely hear it.

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So that's what we would call it

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the selfish instrument

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'cause only the player
enjoys most of the time

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because it's on a flat board.

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So now I'll introduce you to something

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that this guy by name

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Hugh Tracey came up with.

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This is called Kalimba.

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And Kalimba, the European guy

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by name of Hugh Tracey

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went to South Africa and saw the Mbira,

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and fell in love with it.

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So he found out that

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it was not in European keys,

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so he can't really play
a guitar, piano and so...

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Organ, or something to accompany it.

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So he came up with something

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that can be tuned to European
key that he can play with it.

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So this is why he came up with this.

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And this, also, the difference
between this and that,

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that is on a flat board.

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This has got a box

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like a guitar,

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so you don't have to put
in a gourd and it's loud.

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Okay.

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I'm going to play you another something

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on Kalimba, so you can
really see the difference

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between, or the sound between
the Mbira and Kalimba.

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(melodious pitches)

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And this is the key of G.

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(melodious pitches)

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♪ Ayama Ayama Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama Ayama Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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(rhythmic pitches)

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♪ Ayama Ayama Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama Ayama Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama Ayama Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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(melodious pitches)

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♪ Ayama Ayama Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama Ayama Ayama ♪

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♪ Ayama oh oh Ayama ♪

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Thank you for listening, thank you.

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Now, I'm going to introduce you

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to our next traditional drumming

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that you know

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we have a traditional
song called Kpanlogo.

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Kpanlogo is from the city of Accra

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and it started in 1963.

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This guy by name Otoo Lincoln

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invented this new form
of traditional drumming

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and he named Kpanlogo.

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And Kpanlogo simply means "Lolo"

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first it started "Lolo."

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"Lolo" means to weave.

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And it came from the
way you dance, this...

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The movement that you do
to this particular rhythm

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It's like a weaving kind of movement.

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So he named it Lolo,

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but eventually from Lolo became Kpanlogo.

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So that's how Kpanlogo came about.

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And I will show you.

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So, I'm going to teach you

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so you can sing along

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as I play

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but I'm going to sing with you first.

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Before I show you on a drum how it goes.

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♪ Do pantan pantan ♪

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♪ Do pantan do ♪

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♪ Do pantan pantan ♪

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♪ Do pantan do ♪

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♪ Do pantan pantan ♪

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♪ Do pantan do ♪

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♪ Do pantan pantan ♪

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♪ Do pantan do ♪

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So as you can listen to it,

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I'm using "do" and "pantan".

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So I'm going to use one more alphabet

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to go in between them

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♪ Do pantan pantan ♪

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♪ Do pantan do ♪

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♪ Piti do pantan pantan ♪

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♪ Do pantan do ♪

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You see? You rounded it

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If you close the gap, so
you don't stop anymore,

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It just goes around the circle now,

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♪ Do pantan pantan do pantan do ♪

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♪ Piti do pantan pantan do pantan do ♪

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this is the way it sounds on our drum

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(rhythmic drum beats)

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So, this was without the "piti".

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Now, we're going to add a "piti" to it.

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So, what we just did,

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♪ Do pantan pantan do pantan do ♪

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♪ Do pantan pantan do pantan do ♪

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Now, we goin' add "piti" to it.

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Listen to it now

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♪ Do pantan pantan do pantan do ♪

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♪ Piti do pantan pantan do pantan do ♪

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♪ Piti ♪

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(rhythmic drum beats)

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♪ Piti ♪

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♪ Piti ♪

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♪ Piti do pantan pantan do pantan do ♪

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♪ Piti do pantan pantan do pantan do ♪

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♪ Piti ♪

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(rhythmic drum beats)

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♪ Do pantan do ♪

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♪ Do pantan do ♪

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♪ Piti ♪

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(rhythmic drum beats)

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♪ Piti ♪

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(rhythmic drum beats)

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♪ Piti ♪

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(rhythmic drum beats)

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♪ Piti ♪

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(folkloric drum beats)

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(percussive rhythms)

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(soft fading beats)

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Thank you, thank you very much.

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Well,

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I'm glad that we went through this today

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once more, learning about traditional

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drumming from Ghana.

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And that is called what? Kpanlogo

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From where? Accra, Ghana.

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On West Coast of Africa

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And my name is Kofi Anang, and
I'm glad you joined me today,

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And hopefully we'll get
to see each other again.

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Thank you, and have a good day.

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Bye bye

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(mellow music)