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krar

musical instrument

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type of lyre

In stringed instrument: Lyres
The smaller lyre, krar (the ancient Greek lyra), has a bowl-shaped resonator and is emphatically secular in its use and connotations; indeed, Ethiopian and Eritrean tradition casts it as the instrument of Satan. The construction of this six-stringed instrument illustrates the sort of change that is of wide…
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use in Africa

In African music: Lyres
…kithara); and the smaller six-string krar, with a bowl-shaped body (resembling the Greek lyra). The latter type, with four to eight strings and varying in size, is also used in South Sudan, Uganda, and Kenya. The litungu is a typical specimen.
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