Krar
Krar (Geʽez: ክራር) is a five-or-six stringed bowl-shaped lyre from Ethiopia and Eritrea. It is tuned to a pentatonic scale. A modern Krar may be amplified, much in the same way as an electric guitar or violin. The Krar, along with Masenqo and the Washint, is one of the most widespread musical instruments in Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea.
A wooden krar. | |
| String instrument | |
|---|---|
| Classification | lyre |
| Developed | Ethiopia and Eritrea |
| Related instruments | |
| masenqo | |
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