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On “Day of the Living Sky,” hypnotic plucking of a harplike instrument, a scattered flute and an anchoring drumbeat transport listeners to a celestial jungle.

From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2023

On Aug. 7, Kevin Scott, a Universal Life minister, officiated there before 100 guests, and a musician played the kora, a West African long-necked harplike instrument.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2021

The latter’s 1974 single “Kalimba Story,” for example, inspired Williams’s use of the African thumb-piano on the song “Urban Driftwood,” which also features her on the harplike kora.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021

An unusual workshop demonstration will take place April 5, when the South African guitarist Derek Gripper introduces his transcriptions from the kora — a 21-string, harplike instrument associated with the African griot, or storytelling, tradition.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2014

Then the playing began again,—a harplike intermingling of soft sounds.

From A Mountain Woman by Peattie, Elia Wilkinson