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1: 0:00:00
(we get money instruments and hit them)
2: 0:00:16
(no. our ancestors had tree instruments, not guitars. we saw them play tree instruments. now we use money instruments for singing)
3: 0:00:55
(our ancestors made tree instruments. now money instruments have come)
4: 0:01:23
(some older brothers know how to make instruments. mosangi, others too. not guitars, tree instruments. we don't make guitars both we and our ancestors don't know how. do you know how to make tree instruments? i've seen them made, but i don't know how to do it myself. my father made them)
5: 0:02:28
(the instruments had names, my father called them... komuu niye, kongonn, yalameket, sisib )
6: 0:04:01
(yeah i play guitar. i don't know how to play well. when you came and gave out the paper - chord sheets- i got a guitar and started playing, i wanted to get one)
7: 0:04:56
(someone gets a guitar and hits it and hits it well. you give us papers and we follow them and it gives us good thinking)
8: 0:05:20
(if someone wants to learn guitar they get a guitar. then they get someone who already knows and watch their fingers. they see how to hold the strings and then they hit it, that's how he'll learn. i don't know myself, but i'm learning)
9: 0:06:04
(ladies might want to play, one or two can but most don't. there isn't one where i live. they'd struggle to follow the paper if they wanted to. so it's not forbidden, but they just don't know? yes that's right their hands are heavy)
10: 0:06:48
(david knows how, but the one our father had isn't here anymore. david and mosangi know how to do it, i was small and i didn't learn. bamboo is cut, put in 1 2 or 3. i don't know. they cut them and hit them and check the sound. 1 is really small, 2 is small, 3 is long. so we cut them and check the sound. the bamboo used is called kumbambi. more repetition, sounds good we have a singing)
11: 0:08:44
(we cut a sisib tree. the piece is cut and shaved with machetes. then we light a fire. we do that on both sides. the ends are big and the middle is small, and we put a hole. after the fire more scraping, we make an ear. when done we put a kilimbuu skin and wet it and when it's dry it's an instrument. we get kengum sap for glue and sow the instrument up, glue goes on and makes it strong. we tie it with some rope. then we get kosebi sap and put that on top of the kengum. we check the sound and put it one or two times or 3 or 4. then we sing... today we don't do singsings like that, but the instruments are still around. mosangi, david and set know how to make thems still. my father made tree instruments and bowls)