Definitions
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- noun A traditional type of
lyre with eight strings, used by theLuo people ofKenya .
Etymologies
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Examples
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"I've come a long way to be here, but its beautiful to play beneath this sky, where the music belongs," chuckled lean, composed veteran Ayub Ogada, expertly plucking his nyatiti and talking and singing his way through a jazzy, polyrhymic set with the charismatic loquaciousness of a Kenyan Richie Havens.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Neil McCormick 2011
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The 190,000-square-foot museum also has a saung gauk harp from Burma, a nyatiti lyre from
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The 190,000-square-foot museum also has a saung gauk harp from Burma, a nyatiti lyre from
NPR Topics: News 2011
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The 190,000-square-foot museum also has a saung gauk harp from Burma, a nyatiti lyre from
NPR Topics: News 2011
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