The kora is a 21-string harp with a large, resonating gourd as its base.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltimore City Paper] Reference

SESAY: Diabate says the kora is a fixture in its family going back generations.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2009] Reference

(A kora is a 21-string harp-like instrument that creates a defining African sound.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Showtime in the Sahara] Reference

Ms. CARTER: The kora is a West African harp.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regina Carter: Translating African Folk To The Jazz Violin] Reference

TerryH: the root is kora, which is girl.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Here she is with a kora player and an accordionist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regina Carter: Translating African Folk To The Jazz Violin] Reference

We don't mean to disturb your practice with the kora.    From Wordnik.com.  [With No One as Witness]

And kora is even more quiet, I think, than the violin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regina Carter: Translating African Folk To The Jazz Violin] Reference

The kora can be accessible in many different contexts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warm Up to a Meeting of Two Classical Minds] Reference

Even though he played kora, his father played the ngoni.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modiba: Cheick Hamala Diabate 'Takes It Slow,' as Buzz for New Album Picks up] Reference

The kora is just one of many instruments that Kante plays.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 23, 2002] Reference

SIEGEL: And you should describe the kora for our listeners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regina Carter: Translating African Folk To The Jazz Violin] Reference

But the ease of adding new widgets is brilliant. reply kora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chumby Devices Handed Out at Foo] Reference

His instrument is the kora, which he brought into the studio.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bela Fleck And Toumani Diabate: Banjo Roots] Reference

People won't be able to see this, but you are facing the kora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bela Fleck And Toumani Diabate: Banjo Roots] Reference

She went to the sofa and placed the kora carefully on the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [With No One as Witness]

He was already established as a kora and balafon player in Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 20, 2004] Reference

Mali music star Toumani Diabaté chimes in with the harplike kora.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Mali to Mainstream] Reference

“kora-kora,” quite open, very low, and about four tons burthen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

I would like to find someone to play the kora at a library program.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

Played with a kora for a while: it's pretty sounding, but not for me.    From Wordnik.com.  [new drums and a dream of the blue hippo] Reference

Diabate debuts 20 years ago with the world's first solo kora CD, "Kaira.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Toumani Diabate Takes a Solo Turn] Reference

The higher-pitched stringed kora is a perfectly able complement to the bass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hidden Talents] Reference

The kora was playing in the royal court, you know, for the king and the warriors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bela Fleck And Toumani Diabate: Banjo Roots] Reference

Diabate's career has demonstrated that the kora can recount history all on its own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toumani Diabate Takes a Solo Turn] Reference

The kora he now plays is 50 years old, given to him at the age of 18 by his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toumani Diabaté: Mali's modest maestro] Reference

The kora is just simply a beautiful instrument and Malian singers have so much soul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty] Reference

And Yacuba actually made his kora and he learned the instrument from his grandfather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Regina Carter: Translating African Folk To The Jazz Violin] Reference

The first person that I knew with an iPhone, by the way, was kora player Ballake Sissoko.    From Wordnik.com.  [Modiba: Cheick Hamala Diabate 'Takes It Slow,' as Buzz for New Album Picks up] Reference

Along the way, he met Malian kora master Toumani Diabate, and they decided to tour together.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2009] Reference

He is handsome, the latest in a line of 53 generations of kora players, and a real virtuoso.    From Wordnik.com.  [Showtime in the Sahara] Reference

And he is often credited with introducing the traditional instrument, the kora, to the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 14, 2007] Reference

In the hall on Africa in the Field Museum is a video of a traditional musician playing a kora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference

Born in Bamanko in 1965, Toumani picked up the kora at the age of 5 and taught himself to play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Ninety-One] Reference

The products include sanitary napkins, kora craft, talypot fibre craft and bamboo craft items.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

(Toure was inspired to play music by Toumani's father Sidiki Diabate, the master kora player.).    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]