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▪ I. kora1|ˈkɔərə|
Also cora, korro.
[Native name.]
A West African stringed instrument resembling a harp.
1799M. Park Trav. Afr. xxi. 278, I have now to add a list of their musical instruments, the principal of which are,—the koonting, a sort of guitar..; the korro, a large harp, with eighteen strings; [etc.]. 1874C. Engel Descr. Catal. Musical Instruments S. Kensington Museum (ed. 2) 151 Mungo Park enumerates, among the popular instruments which he saw in Senegambia, the e-korro. 1935G. Gorer Africa Dances iv. 305 The drums are sometimes supplemented and occasionally supplanted by..the cora, a six-stringed instrument somewhere between a guitar and a harp. 1965Economist 16 Jan. 229/3 The Senegal national anthem..begins..‘Strum your koras, strike the balafous’. 1970P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 47 The great harp-lute, called the kora.
▪ II. kora
var. koura. |