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Hugh Travers Tracey was an English ethnomusicologist, born in Devon in 1903. By the late 1920s Tracey was a farmer in rural Devon. At that time he decided to travel to what was then known as Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). There he continued to work as a farmer, but he became deeply interested in the local music. In 1934, he left farming to work in the South African Broadcasting Corporation. In 1947 he established the African Music Society in Roodepoort, South Africa and in the late 1950s he created a modernized version of the mbira, called a kalimba.

Born: 1903
Died: 1977