Sunday, April 21, 2013

Day 17 ~ Morocco (Lotar)


 Heat up a cup of mint tea, and click here to enjoy the sounds of North Africa with this video of the Moroccan guitar-esque LOTAR.

As Moroccanmusic.Com tells us, the Lotar is a 4 or 5 stringed lute with a fat round neck and hollow goat skin covered body.  Sometimes the body is made of a tin soup bowl!  Lotars have a stacatto banjo like tone that is often complimented by the more flowing sound of the violin-like rebaba.

This 40-day Virtual World Tour of Music correlates with the World Music House kickstarter crowdfund. (Click the orange words for more details!)

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