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Kafir harp
The Kafir harp (known in the local language as waj, waji, vaj or vaji) is a traditional four or five stringed arched harp used by the Kafirs in the Nuristan province of Afghanistan. It is played during social gatherings, and to accompany epic storytelling or songs of heroic tales.
Similar harps used to be widespread in ancient times throughout Central Asia and India, and this harp possibly entered Afghanistan during the spread of Buddhism across the region but today the ''waji'' is not used in any other part of Afghanistan. It has been compared to the ennanga of Uganda and harp designs used in Sumer and Ancient Egypt as far back as 3000 BCE.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Egyptian Musical Instruments )〕
==Construction and design==
The Kafir harp is constructed of two main components, the soundbox and the stringholder. The soundbox is made from a hollowed piece of wood with a think piece of animal skin stretched over it. The stringholder is a curved branch that sits on top of the soundbox,〔 and up to five strings are pulled through holes created along the side of the branch. On one side of the branch, the strings are held in place with non-tuning knobs, on the other side the strings dangle off the instrument like tassels. One harp collected in an anthropological expedition in the 1950s had four strings that corresponded to the central techrachord of the Dorian mode.
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