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Kenyan musical instruments
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nyatiti
300px|thumb|:en:Nyatiti|Nyatiti 300px|thumb|Nyatiti played in Tanzania during a school cultural day The nyatiti is a five to eight-stringed plucked bowl yoke lute from Kenya. It is a classical instrument played by the Luo people of Western Kenya, specifically in the Siaya region north of Kisumu. It is about two to three feet long with a bowl-shaped, carved wood resonator covered in cow skin. Historically, strings were fashioned from cattle tendons, but modern players almost exclusively use nylon and plastic fishing line of various sizes, a move which changed the sound of the nyatiti drasticall
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