Yaw makes and plays a traditional guitar while others observe and dance nkami_playingjintai_yaw_121013

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Emmanuel Amoako (Yaw) demonstrates in a video how to make and play a traditional guitar for children, while others, mainly children, look on and dance to it. The elan files contain annotations that are fairly advanced. They contain (raw) transcription, phonetic transcription, morphological breakup (MB) and interlinear glossing (IG) of Nkami's recording, and Akan and English translations.

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