Kora (instrument)

Kora

The kora is a 21-string harp-lute used mostly by peoples in West Africa.^[1]

Kora (instrument) Media

Traditional range of the kora
Kora (Bridge-Harp Or Plucked Harp-Lute) from St. Cecilia's Hall Museum, Edinburgh
Electric kora invented by Robert Grawi.
Kora sheet music (fragment of the score of One Thousand Sources, for solo kora, by Jacques Burtin).
Master kora-maker Alieu Suso of the Gambia
A kora player wearing a korte necklace, from the central northern Bandiagara Escarpment, Mopti Region, Mali. The kora neck and handles appear to have broken off. Late 1700s.
Sambou, jali of Niantanso, Mali, with a Kamalengoni (a relation to the Kora) in 1872.
Kora players in Sénégal, 1900. The koras are straight-necked, with handles, carrying cords, tacked skins and small, square soundholes.
Jali Fily Sissokho playing a 22-string kora, tuned with konso string terminations and strung with nylon monofilament strings, 2008.
Sona Jobarteh tuning a 22-string kora with open machine head tuners, 2017.