--- title: Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more», a lesson of the arts course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every corner of the world built its own instruments from what was at hand: gourds, termite-hollowed --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/) / Instruments of the world: bandura, erh… # Instruments of the world: bandura, erhu, sitar, kora, didgeridoo and more Lesson 10 of the arts course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/0/) — Every corner of the world built its own instruments from what was at hand: gourds, termite-hollowed branches, bamboo, old oil drums, and they carry the stories of the people who play them. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/1/) — Picture a world music fair: a Ukrainian bandura with dozens of strings, a Chinese erhu with only two, an Indian sitar with strings nobody touches that still hum, a West African kora that is half harp, half lute, and a didgeridoo droning without a pause for breath. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/2/) — The trick is not to squeeze new things into old boxes: the kora is not "a guitar or a harp", the guzheng is not "a sideways piano", and bagpipes are not only Scottish. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/3/) — Fewer strings does not mean easier, drums can change their pitch, and a whole continent like Africa, with 54 countries, is never "just drums". - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/5/) — The bandura is a Ukrainian plucked string instrument; modern concert banduras have around 55 to 65 strings. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/6/) — The bandura was played by kobzars, wandering singers of stories and songs; historians have documented that many kobzars were persecuted in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/7/) — The erhu is a Chinese bowed instrument with two strings; the bow hair passes between the strings, and it can sound very like a human voice. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/8/) — The sitar has sympathetic strings that are not plucked but vibrate by themselves when matching notes are played; Ravi Shankar made it famous worldwide, and George Harrison of the Beatles learned from him. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/9/) — The kora is a West African instrument with 21 strings, made from a large gourd covered in skin, often called a harp-lute, and traditionally played by griots, who keep history through song. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/10/) — The didgeridoo comes from Aboriginal Australians of northern Australia, traditionally made from a branch hollowed by termites; skilled players use circular breathing. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/11/) — Circular breathing means breathing in through the nose while pushing out air stored in the cheeks, so the sound never stops. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/12/) — Many places have bagpipes: Scotland, Ireland's uilleann pipes, the gaita of Galicia in Spain and the gaida of Bulgaria. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/13/) — The tabla is a pair of Indian hand drums; pressing the skin while striking it changes the pitch. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/14/) — The steel pan was developed in Trinidad and Tobago in the 20th century from oil drums and is its national instrument. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/15/) — The guzheng is a Chinese plucked zither with strings over movable bridges, played in China for over 2,000 years. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/16/) — African music includes drums such as the djembe, string instruments like the kora, thumb pianos like the mbira of southern Africa, and many singing styles. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/10-instruments-of-the-world-bandura-erhu-sitar-kora-didgeridoo/17/) — The trembita is a long wooden horn of the Hutsuls in the Ukrainian Carpathians, often around 3 metres or more, used for signals in the mountains and at ceremonies; the Swiss alphorn is a similar mountain horn. - ← previous: [Instrument families: strings, wind, brass, percussion, keys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/9-instrument-families-strings-wind-brass-percussion-keys/) - next →: [Concerts, orchestras and live gigs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/11-concerts-orchestras-and-live-gigs/) - ↑ back to [Arts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/)