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Belly harp

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 against the body.

Deze harp heeft een klankkast van kalebas, waarin een stok is gestoken die als hals van de harp fungeert. De 6 snaren lopen naar de hals vanaf een andere stok die aan de basis van de hals is vastgebonden. Een derde stok voltooit de lijst, versterkt het instrument en geeft het…
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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 against the body. 1

Recordings

Belly Harp. Folk Music of Liberia, Folkways FE 4465 (Side ll, band 3) 1

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Belly harp”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1

Belly harp is Plucked string instrument, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2

The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2

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