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Sub-Saharan Africa
Instruments
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Music
Undergraduate 3
05/13/2010
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Mbira
 Definition
a lamellaphone - one of the most highly developed classical instruments of the Shona.
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Lamellapone
 Definition
A general class of musical instruments that have tuned metal or reed tongues set on a bridge mounted to a soundboard or box; it is played by striking the
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balo
 Definition
a large set of wooden pieces that have been mounted on gourds, and are struck with mallets with rubber tips
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kora
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a 21-string harp-lute used extensively by peoples in West Africa
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