Types of koras (KMH models)

Here you will find the explanations about the different type of koras that you can find in ‘KORA manding harps’ website. These are the kora models that are display on the The KMH koras page of this website. With these informations you will have an idea...

General FAQ about the instrument: kora

What is a kora? The kora is a double course strung bridge-harp (from West Africa) that belongs to the manding people (mandingka). The kora is also defined as a “harp-lute” as it is using a calabash conforming its acoustic body. You can read extended...

Kora players (MCS list) West African harp music

I am sharing in this post what slowly became my own list of kora players stored in my computer… and I decided to publish it so other kora lovers can “drink from it”. It is a list that got “slowly-auto-generated” so it was not and it is...

Kora, the Instrument: Typology

The Kora, african music instrument (West Africa) is a cordophone instrument with a bridge system; membranophone; with a calabash building the acoustic box; and it belongs to the doble strung harps family. Cordophone. From the family of string instruments. In the past...