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Begena
A wooden Begena with leather skin, gut strings and iron nails
String instrument
Classification
string
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
321.2 (Composite chordophone sounded with a plectrum)
Developed
early 15th century
Related instruments
lyre
The begena, (Amharic: በገና) is a ten-stringed box-lyre instrument from Ethiopia, and is the sole melodic instrument devoted only to the zema, the spiritual part of Ethiopian music.[1][2]
^The Ethiopian Lyre bagana: an instrument for emotion, Stéphanie Weisser, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, August 22-26 2006, https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.569.2160&rep=rep1&type=pdf
^Weisser, Stéphanie (2012). "Emotion and music: The Ethiopian lyre bagana". Musicae Scientiae. 16: 3–18. doi:10.1177/1029864911416493. S2CID 147386895.
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