Essentially, the aim is to create a kora which retains the physical shape (for the most part) but with easily accessible, cheap materials. Now, for the sake of making my project more interesting (and because the cost of making a real kora in the Netherlands is a little extreme), my kora is made of mostly second-hand materials and build in a non traditional method. Hook (eye bolt or traditionally, an iron ring).Tuning rings/pegs (machine heads, fiddle tuning pegs, zither pins or traditionally, leather rings).21 strings (nylon or traditionally, strips of hide).Hear one of the best kora players of today, Toumani Diabete, play my favourite kora song in the YouTube video attached. It consists of 21 strings and is incredibly hard to play. The kora is a west African string instrument which, according to the reliable source Wikipedia, is classified as a "double-bridge-harp-lute" because it fits into all those characteristics. Of course, that ended up not being a joke and I actually decided to make one. At that time, in music class we were doing a unit on world music and as a joke, I said I would build a kora (more on what exactly a kora is later) for my Personal Project. Since I am really into music and am looking at doing something with it as a carrier choice, I wanted my Personal Project to be about music. I go to an IB school and as part of our curriculum we have to do a Personal Project. If you're not all too interested in the motivation for this project you can just skip this part.
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