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The pierced lute had a neck made from a stick that pierced the body (as in the ancient Egyptian long-neck lutes, and the modern African gunbrī). [16] The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar (dutār 2 strings, setār 3 strings, čatār 4 strings, pančtār 5 strings). [1] [15]
The Maghreb rebab or Maghrebi rebab is a bowed lute now played mainly in Northern Africa. It fits within the wider rebab traditions of the Arab world, but also branched into European musical tradition in Spain, Sicily, and the Holy Roman Empire.
Molo is the name given to a lute by the Hausa people of Niger and northern Nigeria and the Songhay people of Niger. [1] In Ghana, it is called Mɔɣlo in Dagbanli. [2] Molo is the name used for a specific type of African lute, one that has a boat-shaped body or soundbox, carved from wood and a round dowel for a neck. [1]
The pierced lute had a neck made from a stick that pierced the body (as in the ancient Egyptian long-neck lutes, and the modern African gunbrī [7]). [8] The long lute had an attached neck, and included the sitar, tanbur and tar: the dutār had two strings, setār three strings, čārtār four strings, pančtār five strings. [5] [6]
Hausa musician playing a gurmi. The gurmi is a two or three-stringed lute of the Hausa people of northern Nigeria. [1] [2] May also be called gurumi or kumbo.[1] [2] In looking at the two-finger playing style used by musicians who play the gumbri, researchers have listed it as a possible relative to the banjo.
String instrument; Other names: gunbrī, [1] gunībrī, [1] gumbri, guembri, gimbri, hejhouj Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 321.33 (Tanged or Semi-spike lute: Chordophone, the plane of strings runs parallel with the sound table, the string bearer is a plain handle and passes "diametrically" through the resonator, the resonator consists of a natural or carved out bowl, in which the handle ...
Xalam (in Serer, khalam in Wolof, and Mɔɣlo in Dagbanli) is a traditional lute from West Africa with 1 to 5 strings. [2] The xalam is commonly played in Mali, Gambia, Senegal, Niger, Northern Nigeria, Northern Ghana, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, and Western Sahara.
Side view of a kontigi. The lute has a elongated or oval half-calabash soundbox. It is small, about 12 inches long, with a high pitch. A kontigi or kuntigi is a one-stringed African lute played by the Hausa, Songhai and Djerma. [1] [2] A 3-string version teharden is used among the Tamashek. [2]