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krar

five- or six-stringed bowl-shaped lyre from Eritrea and Ethiopia
Class type of: plucked string instrument, bowl lyre Q1786674
krar
Photo: Andreas Praefcke · Public Domain · Wikimedia

Facts

4 properties
Subclass of
plucked string instrument, bowl lyre[1][2]
Country of origin
Ethiopia[3]
Hornbostel-Sachs classification
321.21[4]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en krar ar كرار (آلة موسيقية) fa کرار fi kerâr he קראר uk Крар zh 克拉琴
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID
300042126
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
art/krar
Freebase ID
/m/019c1s
J9U entity ID
987007373448105171
MIMO instrument ID
3497
MusicBrainz instrument ID
2ab4c035-374a-4188-bb7a-81c2558254f7
SEKO ID
00548

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Country of origin 1
Ethiopia
Subclass of 1
plucked string instrument
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  4. [4] ↑ . omeka1.grinnell.edu. omeka1.grinnell.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 24w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Maintained by WikiProject → WikiProject Intangible Cultural Heritage
    Country of origin → Ethiopia
    Subclass of → plucked string instrument, bowl lyre
    "Changed claim qualifiers: J9U entity ID: 987007373448105171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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