Definitions
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- noun A three-stringed, skin-covered bass plucked
lute used by theGnawa people of Morocco.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I stand in a trance watching the Gnawans play their deeply hypnotic music, marked by low-toned, urgent rhythmic sintir melodies, call and response singing, hand clapping and the shaking of rattle-like cymbals called krakeb.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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I stand in a trance watching the Gnawans play their deeply hypnotic music, marked by low-toned, urgent rhythmic sintir melodies, call and response singing, hand clapping and the shaking of rattle-like cymbals called krakeb.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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I stand in a trance watching the Gnawans play their deeply hypnotic music, marked by low-toned, urgent rhythmic sintir melodies, call and response singing, hand clapping and the shaking of rattle-like cymbals called krakeb.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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I stand in a trance watching the Gnawans play their deeply hypnotic music, marked by low-toned, urgent rhythmic sintir melodies, call and response singing, hand clapping and the shaking of rattle-like cymbals called krakeb.
Richard Bangs: Why Would Anyone Bomb Jemaa El F'na Square in Marrakesh? Richard Bangs 2011
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The list of contributing artists includes jazz icons Madeleine Peyroux, Brad Mehldau and Milton Nascimento, pop singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant and Moroccan sintir virtuoso Hassan Hakmoun.
Forsaking 'Authenticity' Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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The list of contributing artists includes jazz icons Madeleine Peyroux, Brad Mehldau and Milton Nascimento, pop singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant and Moroccan sintir virtuoso Hassan Hakmoun.
Forsaking 'Authenticity' Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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The list of contributing artists includes jazz icons Madeleine Peyroux, Brad Mehldau and Milton Nascimento, pop singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant and Moroccan sintir virtuoso Hassan Hakmoun.
Forsaking 'Authenticity' Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2010
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Maâlem is what happens when you give Jimmy Page a sintir and hand qaraqib to six John Bonhams.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Derek Beres 2011
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There are stuttering bass lines from his sintir, a traditional Moroccan lute, along with the triple-time clatter of the metal castanets call qraqeb.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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Mr. Hakmoun's group started the collaboration, with a sintir line and a major-mode melody.
NYT > Home Page By JON PARELES 2011
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