Kabosy
Sign in to savethumb|left|150px|A boy playing a mandoliny or kabosy with full fretting. thumb|right|Kabosy. thumb|right|A guitar-shaped Kabosy.
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- guitar
- Country
- Madagascar
- Material used
- steel
- Location
- Madagascar
- Image
- Kabosy.png
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- Kabosy
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thumb|left|150px|A boy playing a mandoliny or kabosy with full fretting. thumb|right|Kabosy. thumb|right|A guitar-shaped Kabosy.
The kabosy is a box-shaped wooden guitar commonly played in music of Madagascar. It has four to six strings and is commonly thought to be a direct descendant of the Arabic oud through the gambus played in Malay-populated areas of Southeast Asia. The kabosy has staggered frets, many of which do not even cross the entire fretboard, and is generally tuned to an open chord.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kabosy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.