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African Traditional Musical Instruments - The Kora The Kora is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It combines features of the lute and harp. Here is a small group of African stamps shows the Kora: Portuguese Guinea - April, 1948:  Batourou Sekou Kouyate, Malian artist, playing Kora, issued by Mali on June 13, 1983:  Guinea - June 15, 1962:  Toumani Diabaté, Malian kora player, issued by Guinea Bissau in 2008:  |
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African Traditional Musical Instruments - The Balafon Quote:
The Balafon is a gourd-resonated xylophone, a type of struck idiophone, found across West Africa. A Balafon can be either fixed-key (where the keys are strung over a fixed frame, usually with calabash resonators underneath) or free-key (where the keys are placed independently on any padded surface). In a fixed-key Balafon, the keys are suspended by leather straps just above a wooden frame, under which are hung graduated-size calabash gourd resonators. A small hole in each gourd is covered with a membrane traditionally of thin spider's-egg sac filaments to produce the characteristic nasal-buzz timbre of the instrument, which is usually played with two gum-rubber-wound mallets while seated on a low stool. Wikipedia Balafon, issued by Guinea Bissau in 1989:  Balafon players and woman dancers from Tengrela, Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), designed and engraved by Claude Haley and issued by Upper Volta on February 14, 1969:  Balafon and Balafon Player, designed by Paul Puvilland and issued by Guinea on May 10, 2010:  
 Balafon Players, postcard from the set "Africa in Pictures":  |
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The Oud Quote:
The oud is the most typical Arab musical instrument. It is a short-neck lute-type, pear-shaped stringed instrument. The oud is very similar to modern lutes, and also to Western lutes. The modern oud is most likely derived from the Assyrian Lute. Similar instruments have been used in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia for thousands of years, including Mesopotamia, Egypt, North Africa, the Caucasus, the Levant, and Balkan countries. (Wikipedia) Israel, issued on June 14, 2010:  Playing Oud, by Mohammed Racim (1896–1975), an Algerian artist, issued by Algeria on December 25, 1965:  Algeria, issued on February 17, 1968:  Bayad Sins plays the Oud to the Ladies, from the Arabic tale Bayad and Riyad, issued by the Kingdom of Yemen on August 25, 1967:  Tunisia, issued on March 20, 1970:  Libya, issued on November 1, 1995:  |
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