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- noun Plural form of
kora .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There are echoes of Japanese kotos and Gambian koras in those harps.
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At least let my fingers dance on the strilngs of koras.
Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008
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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).
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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?
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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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