The word is akin to guinbri (also sintir and hajhui), the most common name for the plucked lute of the Gnawa, a North African Islamic community comprised primarily of descendants of slaves and mercenaries brought to Morocco and Algeria from West Africa.
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www.shlomomusic.com/banjoancestors_w.a.luteorigin.htm
www.shlomomusic.com/banjoancestors_w.a.luteorigin.htm
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Yet, there are significant differences between the various members of the Upper Guinea Coast/Greater Senegambia subgroup of the West African plucked lute family. By way of example, let's look at the discrepancies between the Jola ekonting, Manjak bunchundo and Bujogo ñopata:
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The typical African lute-like instruments are all basically of the same construction, whatever the name (like ngoni, or hajhuj, or gunbri) : a wooden bowl, covered with a hide, with a round stick as neck that has on the end tuning "pegs". ... The gunbri is another popular lute North of the Sahara, played mainly by the...
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www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/africa.htm
www.atlasofpluckedinstruments.com/africa.htm
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Various unnamed performers ... TradeWind CDA 002 ... This is a CD-R rather than a CD, but I have no intention of holding that against it! What I do hold against it is every other aspect of its production and the corrupt immorality of its producer.
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www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/lute.htm
www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/lute.htm
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Annotated Checklist of Musical Instruments From; North Africa and Western/Central Asia; On Display in the NMM's Beede Gallery ... The subjects on one are a lute (tār) player and two gossiping ladies, the panel opposite with a male servant offering wine to two seated men. A lady in the panel on the stem holds a wine flask...
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orgs.usd.edu/nmm/Africa/AfricaWesternAsia.html
orgs.usd.edu/nmm/Africa/AfricaWesternAsia.html
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West African Lutes In a Nutshell ... As the epicenter of the trans-Saharan trade with North Africa and the Muslim world at large, it seems logical that Ancient Ghana was most likely "ground-zero" for the introduction of the plucked lute into various regional musical traditions.
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www.banjoroots.com/w.a.lutes.htm
www.banjoroots.com/w.a.lutes.htm
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Datewise : The Laughmaker (1962) (Writer) ... That Was the Week That Was (1964) (Actor) ... Casino Royale (1967) (Actor); Main Stars Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress. Ian Fleming's first book was Titled - Casino Royale. This of course is a Peter Seller version. I haven't seen it yet myself but most reviews I read...
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Oud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The oud (Arabic: ʿūd , plural:أعواد, a‘wād ; Assyrian:ܥܘܕ ūd , Persian: barbat ; Kurdish: ûd ; Turkish: ; Greek: ; Armenian: , Azeri: ud ; Hebrew: עוד ud ; Somali: or kaban ) i...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oud
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