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Auction #114 begins on 11 Apr 2024

Percival R. Kirby

The Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa

Published: Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg, 1968

Edition: Second Updated

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xxiii, 293p. 73 plates. Appendix. Price-clipped dust jacket. A very good copy.

A detailed survey of native music in South Africa, and of considerable anthropological interest. Kirby studied the instruments under the guidance of native experts while living among the tribesmen. It is profusely illustrated by unique photographs of living subjects, as well as instruments from his own collection.

Frontispiece of a rock painting by G.W. Stow, showing a Bushman using seven shooting bows as a musical instrument. Chapters arranged under drums, rattles and clappers, xylophones, bull-roarers and spinning-disks, horns and trumpets, whistles, flutes and vibrating reeds, gora, stringed instruments and lastly Bushman and Hottentot violins and the ramkie.

  • Jacket Condition: Good
  • Binding Condition: Very good
  • Overall Condition: Very good
  • Size: 19 cm x 25 cm
  • Sold By: Mantis Books
  • Contact Person: Charl Yates
  • Country: South Africa
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Telephone: 0833219905
  • Preferred Payment Methods: EFT & Paypal
  • Trade Associations: AA Approved


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