Which Akan harp-lute instrument, combining features of a guitar and a harp, was traditionally played in royal courts before the advent of acoustic guitars?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. The Seperewa
- Step 1: The Seperewa is an indigenous chordophone with a wooden soundbox covered in animal hide and 6 to 14 strings. Step 2. It accompanied royal poetry and storytelling before acoustic highlife guitar overtook it. Answer: The Seperewa. Why not the others: Gyil is a xylophone; Goje is a northern one-stringed bowed fiddle; Kora is a 21-string harp of the Senegambian Mandinka.
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