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Sintir

The sintir (Arabic: سنتير), also known as the guembri (الكمبري), gimbri, hejhouj in Hausa language, is a three stringed skin-covered bass plucked lute used by the Gnawa people of North Africa, mainly in Morocco (Gnawi music), Algeria (Diwane music), Tunisia (Stambeli music), and in Mali. It is approximately the size of a guitar, with a body carved from a…

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Styles

TagnawitTuningKrakebsCastanetsMaalem
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ArabicBassLuteGnawaNorth Africa
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Developed
Multiple cultural influences; instruments show elements from Egyptian lutes (tuning rings and tabs) and folk elements of pre-Arab Africa. Possibly adapted further with Arab infl…
Hornbostel–Sachs classification
321.33 (Tanged or Semi-spike lute: Chordophone, the plane of strings runs parallel with the sound table, the string bearer is a plain handle and passes "diametrically" through t…
Other names
gunbrī, gunībrī, gumbri, guembri, gimbri, hejhouj

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Sintir

Nodes63
Edges62
Triples29
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.031746
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related to Styles · 25
Sintir → Abdelkader Amlil, Abderahmane, Ahmed, Depending, Essaouira, Gnawa, Hamid, How, Kasri, Kiruche, Ksar El Kebir, Maalem, Mahmoud Guinia, Majid Bekkas, Marrakesh, Mustapha Baqbou, Paco, Rabat, Sintirs, Tagnawit
Developed · 1
Sintir → Multiple cultural influences; instruments show elements from Egyptian lutes (tuning rings and tabs) and folk elements of pre-Arab Africa. Possibly adapted further with Arab infl…
Hornbostel–Sachs classification · 1
Sintir → 321.33 (Tanged or Semi-spike lute: Chordophone, the plane of strings runs parallel with the sound table, the string bearer is a plain handle and passes "diametrically" through t…
Other names · 1
Sintir → gunbrī, gunībrī, gumbri, guembri, gimbri, hejhouj
is a · 1
Sintir → drone note and the second string

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strings gnawa body neck guembri lute camel skin string sound rings used tuned percussive instrument tuning xalam morocco also playing

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SintirDevelopedMultiple cultural influences; instruments show elements from Egyptian lutes (tuning rings and tabs) and folk elements of pre-Arab Africa. Possibly adapted further with Arab infl…1.00infobox
SintirHornbostel–Sachs classification321.33 (Tanged or Semi-spike lute: Chordophone, the plane of strings runs parallel with the sound table, the string bearer is a plain handle and passes "diametrically" through t…1.00infobox
SintirOther namesgunbrī, gunībrī, gumbri, guembri, gimbri, hejhouj1.00infobox
Sintiris adrone note and the second string0.90text
Sintirrelated to StylesSintirs0.60section
Sintirrelated to StylesTagnawit0.60section
Sintirrelated to StylesGnawa0.60section
Sintirrelated to StylesThe0.60section
Sintirrelated to StylesThere0.60section
Sintirrelated to StylesThree0.60section
Sintirrelated to StylesHow0.60section
Sintirrelated to StylesDepending0.60section

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