: a 21-stringed African musical instrument resembling a lute
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Recent Examples on the WebThe kora, a mix of a harp and lute, has been a fixture of classical West African music for centuries.—Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 27 July 2024 Senegalese traditionalists were equally skeptical, with several averring that a kora with tuning pegs wasn’t a kora at all.—Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022 Morning sun filters into the monastery church as the melodic twang of two harplike instruments – known as koras – fills the air, combining with the voices of two dozen singing monks.—Guy Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 May 2023 The kora, a West African stringed instrument that sounds like a lute or a harp, became a key element of the score, as did traditional African drums like the sabar and djembe.—Jon Burlingame, Variety, 11 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for kora
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