Walter Kitundu

Walter Kitundu is a musical instrument builder, graphic artist, and musical composer from San Francisco, California. Kitundu was born in Rochester, Minnesota and spent his early years in Tanzania. He returned to Minnesota from age 8 to 25, then moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in approximately 1998. He currently lives in the Western Addition neighborhood. Described as a renaissance man, Kitundu is inventor of the "phonoharp", a stringed instru... more
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