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Mbira (/ ə m ˈ b ɪər ə / əm-BEER-ə) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe.They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs (at minimum), the right forefinger (most mbira), and sometimes the left forefinger.
An Mbira dzavadzimu. Shona music is well known as representative of mbira ("thumb piano") music. The performer of the "kushaura" (lead mbira part) often acts also as the lead vocalist, selecting a known melody or mbira pattern to accompany selected lyrics, usually a phrase or a few lines of text which are then commented upon improvisationally ...
Array mbira; Agidigbo; Ikembe (Eleke, Kisanji) Kalimba (thumb piano) Kasayi; Marímbula; Mbira (Sansa, Sanza, Kaffir piano, Likembe) Malimbe; Mechanical music box; Oopoochawa; Space Harp (electric thumb piano, Frankiphone) Tom; Zimbabwean Marimba; 122.11 Without resonator. 122.12 With resonator. 122.2 With cut-out lamellae Comb; Mechanical ...
Madeleine Yayodele Nelson (() September 16, 1948 – () September 6, 2018) was an American percussionist and composer.She specialized in playing the West African shekere.She also played the djembe drum, the mbira thumb piano and the calabash.
mbira [161] [162] thumb piano Plucked lamellophone, consisting of staggered keys attached to a board, with a halved calabash gourd as resonator: 122.12 References
The tongues may also be arranged in a linear arrangement in the manner of a piano. Tongues may be made small enough to play with individual fingers, hence the colloquial name "thumb piano". (Although some instruments, like the Mbira, have an additional rows of tongues, in which case not just the thumbs are used for plucking.) [5]
They are plucked idiophones, such as the Jew's harp, amplified cactus, kouxian, dan moi, music box and mbira (lamellophone or thumb piano); blown idiophones, of which there are a very small number of examples, the Aeolsklavier being one; and friction idiophones, such as the singing bowl, glass harmonica, glass harp, turntable, verrophone ...
The name "thumb piano" is still common in the English speaking world but is being displaced by mbira and kalimba. "Marimba" requires disambiguation from the marimba xylophone. I suggest fusing the pages under "Thumb Piano, Mbira, Kalimba" and adding a disambiguation and link from "marimba"Redheylin 01:32, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
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