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Kora; String instrument; Classification: Malian stringed instrument with 21 strings: Hornbostel–Sachs classification: 323-5 (Acoustic instruments which have a resonator as an integral part of the instrument, in which the plane of the strings lies at right angles to the sound-table; a line joining the lower ends of the strings would be perpendicular to the neck.
Sona Jobarteh (born 1983 [1]) is a Gambian multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer.She is from one of the five principal kora-playing griot families of West Africa, and is the first female professional kora player [1] [2] to come from a griot family.
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Stringed instruments have been an important part of West African music since at least the 14th century, when it was recorded that they were played in a royal ceremony in Mali. [29] Soninke oral traditions indicate that their use goes back further, to the days of the Ghana Empire. [29] There is a variety of stringed instruments throughout West ...
The kora is a 21-string instrument of West African music, similar to the harp or lute, with origins in the 13th-century during the Mali Empire. A kora was historically played only by a jeli (plural jeliw )—also known as a griot [ b ] —a member of a hereditary class of musicians and storytellers responsible for conveying cultural history ...
The Gravikord is a 24 string electric double bridge-harp invented by Robert Grawi in 1984, [1] which is closely related to both the West African kora and the mbira. It was designed to employ a separated double tonal array structure making it possible to easily play cross-rhythms in a polyrhythmic musical style in a modern electro-acoustic ...
Their instruments include stringed instruments like the kora, the khalam (or xalam), the ngoni, the kontigi, and the goje (or n'ko in the Mandinka language). Other instruments include the balafon, and the junjung. The kora is a long-necked lute-like instrument with 21 strings. The xalam is a variation of the kora, and usually consists of fewer ...
Drums used in African traditional music include talking drums, bougarabou and djembe in West Africa, water drums in Central and West Africa, and the different types of ngoma drums (or engoma) in Central and Southern Africa. Other percussion instruments include many rattles and shakers, such as the kosika (kashaka), rain stick, bells and wood ...