This is an original harp made from materials of ox-horn, iselwa gourd, uqalo reed, umthathe timber and usinga strings. It is named after a quiet pool among the reeds along one of the tributaries of the Amahlongwa river, which ultimately drains into the Indian Ocean on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, south eastern Africa. In the spring and summer during my boyhood in the early 1960s, the rainbow used to drink from the silent pool in seven colours at the bottom of my mother’s cornfield. This model has five strings, typically tuned in either African minor or major African pentatonic scale.