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Krar logo #10101) African musical equipment 2) African music gizmo 3) African melodic gizmo 4) African melodic instrument 5) African musical device 6) African music equipment 7) African musical instrument 8) African music device 9) African music instrument 10) African melodic device 11) African symphonic instrument
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Krar

Krar logo #21000 The krar or kraar is a five- or six-stringed bowl-shaped lyre from Eritrea and Ethiopia. The instrument is tuned to a pentatonic scale. A modern krar may be amplified, much in the same way as an electric guitar or violin. ==Instrument== The krar, a chordophone, is usually decorated with wood, cloth and beads. Its five or six strings determine the ...
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krar logo #21003(from the article `stringed instrument`) ...that is considered by the Christian Ethiopians to be a God-given instrument that came to them from King David; it is used, of course, for sacred ... ...large beganna, with 8 to 10 strings and a box-shaped body (corresponding to the ancient Greek kithara); and the smaller six-string krar, with ...
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krar

krar logo #20200Ancient Ethiopian lyre with five or six gut or nylon strings. A krar has a bowl-shaped,goatskin-covered resonator as well as a large wooden yoke heldin place by two wooden arms. Sometimes called Harp of Apollo.
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