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Nsenga kalimba: "Ackson Zulu's Kalimba"

F# / Gb (closest chromatic pitch)
14
Extracted from recording.
unknown
Mawilili village, Petauke Dist., Zambia
Nsenga
1961
The audio samples were directly extracted from John Blacking's recordings of Ackson Zulu's on the "Music from Petauke of Northern Rhodesia Vol.2" album. On each sample I've tried to remove as many spectral components of other notes played at the same time as possible.
LU6, LU7, and RU1' keys (in Pitch.1 notation) are not in the recordings and were synthesized from their octave counterparts.

Key Fundamental
1, 183,2 Hz
3, 223,8 Hz
5, 272,7 Hz
6, 308,3 Hz
7, 342,8 Hz
1 376,4 Hz
2 411,2 Hz
3 454,7 Hz
4 488,4 Hz
5 549 Hz
6 unknown
7 unknown
1' unknown
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Nsenga kalimba F# / Gb from Mawilili village, Petauke Dist., Zambia Ackson Zulu's Kalimba, 1 of 2
Nsenga kalimba F# / Gb from Mawilili village, Petauke Dist., Zambia Ackson Zulu's Kalimba, 2 of 2