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  • noun Plural form of kora.

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Examples

  • One hears rippling melodic lines coming out of koras and ngonis, but transferring that sound to the guitar requires a great delicacy and precision utilizing both the up stroke and the down stroke of the "picking" fingers.

    Michal Shapiro: Aboubacar "Badian" Diabate: Malian Guitar Master Michal Shapiro 2011

  • One hears rippling melodic lines coming out of koras and ngonis, but transferring that sound to the guitar requires a great delicacy and precision utilizing both the up stroke and the down stroke of the "picking" fingers.

    Michal Shapiro: Aboubacar "Badian" Diabate: Malian Guitar Master Michal Shapiro 2011

  • One hears rippling melodic lines coming out of koras and ngonis, but transferring that sound to the guitar requires a great delicacy and precision utilizing both the up stroke and the down stroke of the "picking" fingers.

    Michal Shapiro: Aboubacar "Badian" Diabate: Malian Guitar Master Michal Shapiro 2011

  • One hears rippling melodic lines coming out of koras and ngonis, but transferring that sound to the guitar requires a great delicacy and precision utilizing both the up stroke and the down stroke of the "picking" fingers.

    Michal Shapiro: Aboubacar "Badian" Diabate: Malian Guitar Master Michal Shapiro 2011

  • One hears rippling melodic lines coming out of koras and ngonis, but transferring that sound to the guitar requires a great delicacy and precision utilizing both the up stroke and the down stroke of the "picking" fingers.

    Michal Shapiro: Aboubacar "Badian" Diabate: Malian Guitar Master Michal Shapiro 2011

  • There are echoes of Japanese kotos and Gambian koras in those harps.

    Wadada Leo Smith: Old And New 'Dimensions' 2010

  • At least let my fingers dance on the strilngs of koras.

    Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008

  • With Mr. Seck as guide, Ms. Bridgewater began her immersion in Malian music by sitting in at jam sessions, singing wordlessly in the company of harp-like koras, lute-like ngonis, and calabashes (drums made from gourds).

    Fresh Contexts and Favored Formats 2007

  • Senegal's anthem starts with the disco-compatible line "everyone strum your koras, strike the balafons" before finding space for a line that says "fibres of my green heart" eh?

    Long and almost pointless: "It's been emotional" Minzo 2006

  • Senegal's anthem starts with the disco-compatible line "everyone strum your koras, strike the balafons" before finding space for a line that says "fibres of my green heart" eh?

    Archive 2006-06-01 Minzo 2006

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