Classic Ennanga, Buganda Harp

This gorgeous harp is similar to one illustrated in the late Marc Ginzberg’s “African Forms” albeit with one more string (eight). A nearly identical example has been housed at the Tervuren Museum since 1911 (inv.#2775.) Both the present instrument and the one in Brussels have the added feature of vegetable fiber rings covered with snake skin tucked below each string. When the gut vibrates it brushes the ring, giving the note a distinctive nasal timbre. The back of this instrument is exceptionally beautiful with a rectangle of finely tanned leather stretched between four parallel sets of hand spun twine. Unmounted. Ex US collection. 30″ long.

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