The orutu is a one-stringed vertical fiddle originated in the pre-colonial societies of Western Kenya, especially amongst the Luo community. In Luhya...

The Hutt River (Māori: Te Awa Kairangi, Te Wai o Orutu or Heretaunga; officially Te Awa Kairangi / Hutt River) flows through the southern North Island...

(Kenya) Nyele (Zambia) Obokano (Kenya) Omubanda (Uganda) Omukuli (Uganda) Orutu (Kenya) Oud (Somalia) Rakatak (Ghana) Ralé-poussé (Réunion) Ramkie (Southern...

(Wales) Ninera Niutuiqin Nyckelharpa (Sweden) N'vike Octobass Organistrum Orutu (East Africa) Pena Philomel (Italy France and German) Phonofiddle Pinaka...

called the oporo or tung', a single-string violin-like instrument called the orutu, and percussion. Modern day players will often integrate the instrument...

applied to any of several African bowed string instruments. Luo orutu Luo orutu, or simply "orutu", is the one-stringed fiddle of East Africa. It is typically...

South Taradale Ward: Awatoto (south part) Greenmeadows Jervoistown Lagoon Farm Meeanee Orutu Park Poraiti Taradale Taradale North Taradale South Te Awa...

District) is an ohangla musician from Kenya. Onyi Papa Jey started playing orutu while at primary school. He dropped from Tonga Secondary School after failing...

rings, ongeng'o or gara, shakers), strings (e.g., nyatiti, a type of lyre; orutu, a type of fiddle), wind (tung, a horn, Asili, a flute, A bu-!, to a specific...

women, Indigenous and non-Indigenous. For example, Purí commentator, Raial Orutu Puri in a Ted X talk entitled My grandmother was "pega no laço" moves from...

percussion, backing vocals Harry Kimani – vocals George Odero Achieng – orutu Ongeri "Magao" Magati – percussion Charles Obuya "Charlotti" Owino – percussion...

performed for local fishing communities. He also hired Onyi Papa Jey, an orutu player who has also since become a formidable musician. In 1999 he moved...

giving access to plentiful food. Later tribes knew it as Te Wai o Orutu, 'the waters of Orutu', a Ngāti Māmoe ancestor. When European settlers arrived it was...

clappers, metal rings, ongeng'o or gara, shakers), nyatiti, a type of lyre; orutu, a type of fiddle), wind (tung' a horn, Asili, a flute, Abu-!, to a specific...