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==Images== <gallery mode="packed" heights="200"> File:Brooklyn Museum 61.2 Figure of a Seated Musician Koro Player (2).jpg|alt=A wooden sculpture of a man seated on a low stool, playing a kora which rests on and slightly between his knees. The figure is stylized, with an elaborate hairstyle, the kora body slightly boxy.|A kora player wearing a korte necklace, from the central northern [[Bandiagara Escarpment]], [[Mopti Region]], [[Mali]]. The kora neck and handles appear to have broken off. Late 1700s. File:Griot de Niantanso-1872.jpg|Sambou, jali of [[Niantanso]], [[Mali]], with a [[Ngoni (instrument)|Kamalengoni]] (a relation to the Kora) in 1872. File:Bijoutier et joueurs de kora.jpg|Kora players in [[Sénégal]], 1900. The koras are straight-necked, with handles, carrying cords, tacked skins and small, square soundholes. File:Kora-Player2.jpg|Jali Fily Sissokho playing a 22-string kora, tuned with [[tuning mechanisms for stringed instruments#Konso|konso]] string terminations and strung with [[nylon strings|nylon monofilament strings]], 2008. File:Aid for Trade Global Review 2017 – Day 1 Sona Jobarteh tuning kora.jpg|[[Sona Jobarteh]] tuning a 22-string kora with open [[machine head]] tuners, 2017. File:Strings of a 21 string Kora harp-lute, Rome - 3497.jpg|Playing position of a kora, showing how the strings are notched into both sides of the square bridge File:Gravi-kora 2 (Photo Jacques Burtin).JPG|The [[gravi-kora]], an [[electric instrument]], lacks the [[acoustic instrument]]'s gourd-and-skin [[resonator]]. File:Sri Lankan composer Dinesh Subasinghe playing the kora Lute in Tone Poem program.jpg|[[Dinesh Subasinghe]] Performing a Kora Lute. File:4 Koras showing 4 sides.jpg|4 Koras showing 4 sides File:4 Koras.jpg|4 Koras (zoom in version) [[File:Gravi-kora 2 (Photo Jacques Burtin).JPG|thumb|right|The Gravi-kora]] </gallery>
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