African harps, particularly arched or "bow" harps, are found in several Sub-Saharan African music traditions, particularly in the north-east. Used from...

Europe. Harps were found across the Americas where it was a popular folk tradition in some areas. Distinct designs also emerged from the African continent...

(1984). "Harp, section 6 African Harps". The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Vol. 2. pp. 156–157. Bebey, Francis (1975). African Music A People's...

(Sherburne)" from the Sacred Harp Performed by the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers Problems playing this file? See media help. Sacred Harp singing is a tradition...

he plays with his fingers), percussion (various instruments), and an African harp called zaa koua.[citation needed] Njacko was born in 1958 Bazou, Cameroon...

djembe, ning nong, soga, kongoma, kpanlogo, tama, kalabash and kora (African Harp). According to the Guardian "They are an infuriatingly jovial multi-racial...

named after them is the Mangbetu harp or guitar. See the National Music Museum and the Hamill Gallery for images. One harp has sold for over $100,000. Ethnomusicologists...

enable easier playing of complex African cross rhythms on an African derived modern electro-acoustic harp. It is a double harp that has 24 strings evenly divided...

the Africa continent as well as their countries or regions of origin. Adungu (Uganda) African fiddle African harp (Sub-Saharan) Agogô (West Africa) Ahoko...

musician, and one of the world's most prominent players of the biram African harp. He died on 21 November 2018, aged 59. Malam Mamane Barka was born in...

extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It has features of the lute and harp. The kora is...

Pomona, California. His late father, Leonard Harper, was of African-American ancestry, and his mother, Ellen Harper Verdries (née Chase), is Jewish. His maternal...

The belly harp is a musical instrument found in West Africa (including Nigeria and Liberia) which is a musical bow with a gourd resonator which is held...

The 10–14 string Ghanaian seprewa, midway between the kora and the African harp, is still played but often replaced by guitar. Other styles include;...

harps followed similar organology using a resonance body made of calabash rather than wood such as the traditional lute ngoni. This West African harp...

ground harp, is a single-string bow-shaped folk musical instrument, classified as a chordophone. It is known in cultures of equatorial and south Africa, and...

Toni Nathaniel Harp (born August 6, 1947) is an American politician who served as the 50th Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut. Harp, a Democrat, was previously...

d'amore Violin Cello Double Bass Zhongruan Harp Ancient Greek harp African harp Celtic harp Concert harp Kora Geomungo/komungo Khim Kutiyapi/kutyapi/kutiapi...

professor of African American Religious History, Musa was highly influential in attracting North African and Middle Eastern Muslims to West Africa. The Mandinka...

Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 269 at the 2020 United States census. Situated...

resonator," the two arms forming an "open" harp. The harp stands in contrast to the arched harp or bow harp in which the angle is much less sharp and in...

populations of Africa". African Americans constitute the second largest racial and ethnic group in the U.S. after White Americans. The term "African American"...

Lift Every Voice and Sing, also known as The Harp, was a plaster sculpture by African-American artist Augusta Savage. It was commissioned for the 1939...

Mandinka balafon, the Maures tabla drums, the Mandinka kora (a West African harp), the riiti (a Fula single-stringed bowed instrument), the Serer instruments...

she was one of the first African American women to be published in the United States. Born free in Baltimore, Maryland, Harper had a long and prolific...

the subsequent expansion of the West African forest. West African hunter-gatherers occupied western Central Africa (e.g., Shum Laka) earlier than 32,000...

instruments like the bow harp (ieta), ngombi (harp zither) and limbindi (a string bow) (Abram). "Banda Music of the Central African Republic - Sound Clip...

from a long family tradition of players of the kora, a 21-string west African harp-like instrument. His father, Sidiki Diabaté, recorded the first-ever...

influenced by the other instruments of the region such as the beautiful West African harp, the kora, and the balafon. Entertainment is the role of certain casts...

The simbing is a Malian harp-lute, used by the Mandinka people of Mali, and the Mandinka and Jola peoples of Senegal and Gambia. The instrument consists...