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The Kafir harp is a simple four or five stringed harp used by the Kafir people of north-east Afghanistan.
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Kagura is the music of Shinto. It is used on formal occasions at shrines or imperial functions and at Shinto folk festivals. The songs and dances are meant to praise the gods and to entertain them. Music at seasonal festivals is performed on drums, rattles, and flutes. Dancers at these festivals perform inside and outside the shrines; their performances are interspersed with chants to the gods. Music at a Buddhist temple in Japan is chanted in one of three languages: Indic, Chinese, or Japanese. The music is marked by highly ornamental singing and free rhythm; bells and chimes are sounded intermittently. The bonodori dances of the o-bon festival are mainly restrained in motion; they are accompanied by singers and sometimes by flute, drum, and samisen, a three-stringed lute.
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The kakaki is a west African trumpet.
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The kalimba is a Bantu percussion instrument consisting of metal strips over a small hollow piece of wood. It is played with the thumbs.
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The kanoon or canun, is a plucked musical instrument of the dulcimer type formerly played by the women of harems to accompany their singing, the sound brought out by plectra thimbles made of tortoiseshell pointed with coconut wood and worn on the ends of the fingers. Originally it had seventy-two strings, now they are made with between fifty and sixty strings.
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The kantele is a type of zither played in Finland and neighbouring parts of Russia.
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The kanun is a 72-stringed harp from the Near East.
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The kawala is an Egyptian bamboo flute played in religious festivals.
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The Kent bugle (keyed bugle) is a keyed bugle introduced or possibly invented by the bandmaster of an Irish regiment, James Halliday, about 1810 and so named in respect of the Duke of Kent (Edward Augustus), the father of the then Queen Victoria. The kent bugle has six finger keys or stops, by means of which the performer can play upon every key in the musical scale. The kent bugle was popular until about 1860 when it was superseded by the cornet-a-piston.
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The kerana is a kind of long trumpet, formerly used among the Persians.
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A kettledrum (timpani) is a drum made of thin copper in the form of a hemispherical kettle, with parchment stretched over the mouth of it. Kettle-drums, in pairs, were formerly used in martial music for cavalry, but are now chiefly confined to orchestras, where they are called timpani or tympani.
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In music, a key is a family of tones whose regular members are called diatonic tones, and named key tone (or tonic) or one (or eight), mediant or three, dominant or five, subdominant or four, submediant or six, supertonic or two, and subtonic or seven. Chromatic tones are temporary members of a
key, under such names as sharp four, flat seven, etc. Scales and tunes of every variety are made from the tones of a key. The name key is also given to the fundamental tone of a movement to which its modulations are referred, and with which it generally begins and ends. Its keynote.
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In music the keynote is the tonic or first tone of the scale in which a piece or passage is written. That is the fundamental tone of the chord, to which all the modulations of the piece are referred.
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The kin was a primitive Chinese instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.
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A kithara was a stringed musical instrument of Ancient Greece, somewhat similar to a lyre, consisting on an elaborate wooden soundbox with two arms connected by a yoke to which the top ends of the strings were attached.
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The koto is a stringed musical instrument from Japan.
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The krummhorn was a reed musical instrument of the cornet kind. A krummhorn is a reed stop in an organ.
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The kussier is a Turkish musical instrument with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched.
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