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For the first two bars of the song, Ando is playing this tune on the kora.
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Isabel Ling, Vulture, 28 June 2024
The kora, a mix of a harp and lute, has been a fixture of classical West African music for centuries.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
Senegalese traditionalists were equally skeptical, with several averring that a kora with tuning pegs wasn’t a kora at all.
—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
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Isabel Ling, Vulture, 28 June 2024
The kora, a mix of a harp and lute, has been a fixture of classical West African music for centuries.
—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
Senegalese traditionalists were equally skeptical, with several averring that a kora with tuning pegs wasn’t a kora at all.
—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
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“Kora.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/kora. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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