Ennanga

Description

This instrument was collected in the field by Christopher Powell-Cotton, and is associated with a "Teso tribe." It is an arched harp made with a triangular-shaped wooden resonator covered with animal skin stretched on the top (soundtable) and bottom, laced/stitched with hide. The bottom patch of skin was adapted from another ennanga. The soundtable has a small soundhole. The angled neck is made of wood and it rests on the bottom of the resonator bowl, piercing the soundtable. A wooden dowel was used as neck/skin holder. It has six wooden tuning pegs and strings made of vegetable fibers. The strings also pierce the soundtable and are attached to a strip of wood (stringholder) that passes along the length of the bowl and projects at each end.