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Credit equally Justin Adams, a phenomenal British guitar player who has produced two records by Tinariwen, as well as worked alongside Robert Plant and Gambian ritti one-stringed fiddle player Juldeh Camara.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Desert Blues and a Sufi Muse Derek Beres 2011
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Credit equally Justin Adams, a phenomenal British guitar player who has produced two records by Tinariwen, as well as worked alongside Robert Plant and Gambian ritti one-stringed fiddle player Juldeh Camara.
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Desert Blues and a Sufi Muse Derek Beres 2011
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When we peep through the windows we are beckoned in to drink tej, mead, or honey wine, and listen to some very good playing on the one-stringed African violin.
Time travellers 2011
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After a few months of training, he decided he wanted to his own berimbau, the one-stringed instrument central to the music of capoeira.
Fighting the Fun Fight Christopher Shay 2011
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The five instrumentalists who played many different instruments my favorite was the "nun's fiddle," a long, skinny, one-stringed wooden box played with a bow that produced a nasty raspberry of a sound in the course of the evening did so expertly, although the two horns sounded indecisive in the fast give-and-take "hocket" of the Dufay "Gloria," and the whole well-paced production moved smoothly.
Waverly Consort's medieval sound tests modern-day audiences Joan Reinthaler 2010
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His open-air concerts of electronically manipulated sounds draw crowds of thousands; last week the city's French Cultural Institute hosted a performance in which he mixed computer-generated noise with the sounds of the one-stringed Vietnamese Dan Bau and the chanting of a village shaman.
A Musical Homecoming in Hanoi Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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His open-air concerts of electronically manipulated sounds draw crowds of thousands; last week the city's French Cultural Institute hosted a performance in which he mixed computer-generated noise with the sounds of the one-stringed Vietnamese Dan Bau and the chanting of a village shaman.
A Musical Homecoming in Hanoi Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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His open-air concerts of electronically manipulated sounds draw crowds of thousands; last week the city's French Cultural Institute hosted a performance in which he mixed computer-generated noise with the sounds of the one-stringed Vietnamese Dan Bau and the chanting of a village shaman.
A Musical Homecoming in Hanoi Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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Chief Tuvi made a shelter for himself in one corner and to Mai's surprise brought out a one-stringed musical instrument from a long leather case which she had all along thought contained a hunting bow.
Spirit Gate 2006
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Next day, he could not work, glory of battle swelled too high in his threadpaper breast; he had made a one-stringed harp for
Vailima Letters 2005
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