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Senegalese traditionalists were equally skeptical, with several averring that a kora with tuning pegs wasn’t a kora at all.
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Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
Morning sun filters into the monastery church as the melodic twang of two harplike instruments – known as koras – fills the air, combining with the voices of two dozen singing monks.
—Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
The kora, a West African stringed instrument that sounds like a lute or a harp, became a key element of the score, as did traditional African drums like the sabar and djembe.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
Until the temple is reopened fully, Vanhoebrouck urges travelers to walk around the temple a few times, also called a kora -- a meditative pilgrimage that involves repeatedly circling around a sacred site in a clockwise direction.
—Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
My father’s favorite sound was the sound of the kora, a harp-like instrument with twenty-one strings held taut between a wooden neck and a calabash body.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
There will be Afro-Cuban jazz, bluegrass, chamber music, Senegalese kora playing, Mexican son jarocho and much more.
—Beth Wood Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
Called Korapiano, the new piece draws inspiration from the kora — a type of African harp — and uses West African folk tunes.
—Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 16 June 2021
Sissoko is one of Mali’s most famous players of the kora, a traditional string instrument that was played in royal courts and is now celebrated around the world.
—Joe Penney, Quartz Africa, 6 Feb. 2020
Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
Morning sun filters into the monastery church as the melodic twang of two harplike instruments – known as koras – fills the air, combining with the voices of two dozen singing monks.
—Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023
The kora, a West African stringed instrument that sounds like a lute or a harp, became a key element of the score, as did traditional African drums like the sabar and djembe.
—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022
Until the temple is reopened fully, Vanhoebrouck urges travelers to walk around the temple a few times, also called a kora -- a meditative pilgrimage that involves repeatedly circling around a sacred site in a clockwise direction.
—Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 28 Oct. 2022
My father’s favorite sound was the sound of the kora, a harp-like instrument with twenty-one strings held taut between a wooden neck and a calabash body.
—Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2021
There will be Afro-Cuban jazz, bluegrass, chamber music, Senegalese kora playing, Mexican son jarocho and much more.
—Beth Wood Writer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2021
Called Korapiano, the new piece draws inspiration from the kora — a type of African harp — and uses West African folk tunes.
—Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 16 June 2021
Sissoko is one of Mali’s most famous players of the kora, a traditional string instrument that was played in royal courts and is now celebrated around the world.
—Joe Penney, Quartz Africa, 6 Feb. 2020
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Malinke
First Known Use
1799, in the meaning defined above
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