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‖ ramkie S. Afr.|ˈramki|
Also raamakie, ramkee, etc.
[Afrikaans, ad. Nama ramgi-b, prob. ad. Pg. rabequinha dim. of rabeca fiddle.]
A stringed instrument, roughly resembling a guitar, played by the Hottentots and Bushmen of Southern Africa.
[1790E. Helme tr. Le Vaillant's Trav. Afr. II. vii. 128 The rabouquin..is, indeed, a kind of guittar [sic]. ]1805Gleanings in Afr. xxvii. 232 Others were busily employed in dancing to the music of the ramky, (as they call it,) and seemed highly delighted with their exertions. 1827G. Thompson Trav. & Adv. Southern Afr. I. 391 In the evening we were entertained by a Bushwoman..playing on the Raamakie—an instrument about forty inches long by five broad, and having the half of a calabash affixed to one end, with strings somewhat resembling those of a violin. 1835J. W. D. Moodie Ten Yrs. S. Afr. I. 224, I have often listened with great pleasure to the wild and melancholy notes of the ‘gorah’ and ‘ramkee’. Ibid. 226 The ‘ramkee’ is constructed on the same principle as a guitar, by stretching six strings along a flat piece of thin board, with the half of a gourd or ‘calabash’ at one end, over which a piece of dried skin is strained, on which the bridge is placed. It is played after the manner of a guitar; and in the hands of a skilful performer, makes no contemptible music. 1934P. R. Kirby Mus. Instr. of Native Races of S. Afr. x. 249 Another stringed instrument, the name of which is familiar to most South Africans, is the ramkie. 1969J. M. White Land God made in Anger 41 There is everything here..from the two-note whining of the Bushman ramkie to Schönberg. 1970P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 109 Ramkie, remkie, three- or four-stringed guitar related to the Portuguese rabequinha brought from Malabar to South Africa and developed by the Cape Hottentots. Also rabekin, ramakienjo, raamakie, ramki. 1972Stand. Encycl. S. Afr. V. 609/1 Besides stringed instruments, such as the !goura (gorah), the !guba and the ramgyb (ramkie), they [sc. the Hottentots] used a set of reed⁓pipes. |