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Nyatiti Luo lyre

Also known as Nyatiti

Nyatiti Luo lyre: photograph by Onesmo Daniel
Photo: Onesmo Daniel, CC BY-SA 4.0, source on Wikimedia Commons

Play the eight-string bowl lyre with toe bells and rhythm patterns.

Heritage note

Part of the living heritage of Kenya.

Origins

Usually placed in the era of Classical Worlds (about 1000 BCE to 500 CE), although its exact origins are uncertain, within the cultural world of Africa: Great Lakes and Indian Ocean.

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