Les Ballets Africains (Joueur de cora)
Translation:
Popular Revolutionary Republic of Guinea
Ballets Africans (Kora Player)
1984
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The kora is a 21-string lute-bridge-harp used extensively in West Africa.
It is a harp built from a large calabash gourd cut in half and covered with cow skin to make a resonator with a long hardwood neck. It doesn't fit into any one category of musical instruments, but rather several, and must be classified as a "double-bridge-harp-lute." The strings run in two divided ranks, making it a double harp. They do not end in a soundboard but are held in notches on a bridge, making it a bridge harp. They originate from a string arm or neck and cross a bridge directly supported by a resonating chamber, making it a lute too.
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