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Xalam (in Serer,
khalam in Wolof, and Mɔɣlo in Dagbanli) is a
traditional lute from West
Africa with 1 to 5 strings. The
xalam is
commonly pla**** in Mali...
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Xalam 2, also
known as
Xalam and
Xalam II, a
Senegalese musical group,
founded in 1969 by a
group of friends. The band was
originally called African Khalam...
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instruments include stringed instruments like the kora, the
khalam (or
xalam), the ngoni, the kontigi, and the goje (or n'ko in the
Mandinka language)...
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commonly found in such West
African instruments as the kora and the
xalam (lute). The
percussive playing style is
reminiscent not only of West African...
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produce fast melodies,
appears to be
closely related to the
akonting and the
xalam. This is
called a jeli
ngoni as it is pla**** by
griots at
celebrations and...
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instrumental proficiency. The
xalam is a lute
which has two
melody strings and
between two and four
additional octave strings. The
xalam originated with the Wolof...
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Valiha (Madagascar)
Washint (Ethiopia)
Wazza (Sudan)
Xalam (West Africa)
Xylophone Zeze (instrument) (Sub-Saharan Africa)
Zukra (Libya)...
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Hittite loanwords as well. One
notable loanword from
Anatolian is
Armenian xalam, "skull",
cognate to
Hittite ḫalanta, "head". In 1985, the
Soviet linguist...
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Chorwon County,
North Korea Komsa Mountain in
Queen Maud Land,
Antarctica Xalam,
known in
Hausa as komsa, a
stringed musical instrument COMSA (disambiguation)...
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While a
member of the
xalam family of instruments, the
gurmi is
specific to the
Hausa people.
Unlike the
xalam, with its oval
shaped soundbox...
