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  1. n. A traditional type of lyre with eight strings, used by the Luo people of Kenya.

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  1. From Luo nyatiti. (Wiktionary)

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  • “I've come a long way to be here, but its beautiful to play beneath this sky, where the music belongs," chuckled lean, composed veteran Ayub Ogada, expertly plucking his nyatiti and talking and singing his way through a jazzy, polyrhymic set with the charismatic loquaciousness of a Kenyan Richie Havens.”

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

  • “The 190,000-square-foot museum also has a saung gauk harp from Burma, a nyatiti lyre from”

    NPR Topics: News

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  1. Kenya
  1. musical instrument
  1. stringed

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