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...