• New Ancient Strings (French: Nouvelles cordes anciennes) is a studio album by the Malian musicians Toumani Diabaté and Ballaké Sissoko, released on 22...
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    at the Glastonbury Festival. In 1999, Diabaté released the album New Ancient Strings, a collaboration with Ballaké Sissoko. In September 2005, he released...
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    In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they...
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    古筝; pinyin: gǔzhēng; lit. 'ancient zheng'), is a Chinese plucked zither. The modern guzheng commonly has 21, 25, or 26 strings, is 64 inches (1.6 m; 5 ft...
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    was the father of Ballaké Sissoko. Toumani and Ballaké recorded New Ancient Strings - Nouvelles Cordes Anciennes in 1999 (Hannibal), as a tribute to...
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    Guqin (section Strings)
    qin originally had five strings, which represent gong, shang, jue, zhi, yu in the ancient Chinese music system, but ancient qin-like instruments with...
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  • Kubo and the Two Strings is a 2016 American animated action fantasy film produced by Laika. It is directed by Travis Knight (in his feature directorial...
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    Harp (category Ancient Greek musical instruments)
    triangular in shape and made of wood. Some have multiple rows of strings and pedal attachments. Ancient depictions of harps were recorded in Mesopotamia (now Iraq)...
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    Kora Music from Mali Kora-Solo Album (bibiafrica records) 1999 - New Ancient Strings with Toumani Diabaté (Hannibal-Ryko) 2000 - Déli (Label Bleu/Indigo)...
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    Ancient Egyptian clothes refers to clothing worn in ancient Egypt from the end of the Neolithic period (prior to 3100 BC) to the collapse of the Ptolemaic...
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  • including Malian Kora player Toumani Diabaté: Kaira, Djelika, Songhai 2, New Ancient Strings (Toumani Diabate with Ballaké Sissoko), and Toumani & Sidiki [Grammy...
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    Lyre (category Ancient Greek musical instruments)
    organology, a lyre is considered a yoke lute, since it is a lute in which the strings are attached to a yoke that lies in the same plane as the sound table,...
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  • short hiatus in 1998, the Big Day Out festival returns to Australia and New Zealand, headlined by Hole and Marilyn Manson. January 21 – A&M Records is...
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    end. It has four main strings which are melodic, and three auxiliary drone strings. To play, the musician plucks the melody strings downward with a plectrum...
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  • Sicilian puppetry. A few of these dolls had strings in place of the rods. Some researchers believe these ancient figures were mere toys and not puppets due...
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    vīṇā with seven strings, the vipanchi vīṇā with nine strings and the mattakokila vīṇā a harp or possibly board zither with 21 strings. The instrument...
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    instruments that produce sound from vibrating strings when a performer strums, plucks, strikes or sounds the strings in varying manners. Musicians play some...
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  • comes from the track "Kulanjan" from the 1970 album of kora music, Ancient Strings, by Toumani Diabaté's father Sidiki Diabaté. Mahal and Toumani Diabaté...
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  • tradition in new ways." The Symmetric Orchestra is just one example of Toumani's fusion of tradition and innovation; Toumani's album New Ancient Strings (1999)...
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  • Vespertine (category Album chart usages for New Zealand)
    acoustic sounds become the interjections." Influenced by the 1999 album New Ancient Strings, a recording of kora duets by Toumani Diabaté with Ballaké Sissoko...
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    Lute (section Strings)
    scoop") is a deliberate adaptation by ancient builders to afford the lutenist's right hand more space between the strings and soundboard. Soundboard thickness...
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    in Greece. The ancient version of the harp resembles a bow, with the strings connecting to the top and bottom of the arch. The strings are perpendicular...
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    placed lowest in its positioning in relation to other strings. Modern tuning preserves the ancient succession of fourths, with adjunctions (lowest or highest...
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    The music of ancient Rome was a part of Roman culture from the earliest of times. Songs (carmen) were an integral part of almost every social occasion...
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    The psalterion (Greek ψαλτήριον) is a stringed, plucked instrument, an ancient Greek harp. Psalterion was a general word for harps in the latter part...
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    harps show background through the strings if the artist painted sufficient detail. See Psaltery for more versions & Ancient Greek harps for earlier psalterion...
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    Psaltery (category Ancient Greek musical instruments)
    (psállō), "to touch sharply, to pluck, pull, twitch" and in the case of the strings of musical instruments, "to play a stringed instrument with the fingers...
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    Guitar (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    typically has six or twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand...
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    Kithara (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    were combined. Most vase paintings show citharas with seven strings, in agreement with ancient authors, but those same authors also mention that occasionally...
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    of many strings stretched across a thin, flat body, the topic of this article. Zithers are typically played by strumming or plucking the strings with the...
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