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Music in Sudan

Music in Sudan
A musician plays a tanbūra for passersby in Sudan. The tanbūra is a bowl lyre and is found, with a variety of names and in differing sizes, throughout northern Africa and the Gulf States. It is thought to have originated in Sudan and Egypt.
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Customs of Sudan
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