Enanga

The enanga is a trough zither native to Uganda and Rwanda. It has eight strings which run above a wooden trough.

It is mainly a story-telling or poem reciting instrument and it accompanies some dances in Kigezi, in the western part of Uganda. It is tuned in a pentatonic scale.

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