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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.
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 music box
Their tuning also differed, as they had 25 strings that were tuned symmetrically using a variation of the Hugh Tracey kalimba tuning system. Grawi made several unique prototypes during this period using wood , aluminum , and other materials, with features including stereo output and variable pitch , [ 2 ] and finally patented the Gravikord in ...
An instrument may have a single tongue (such as a Jew's harp) or a series of multiple tongues (such as a mbira thumb piano). Linguaphone comes from the Latin root lingua meaning "tongue", (i.e., a long thin plate that is fixed only at one end). lamellophone comes from the Latin word lamella for "small metal plate", [ 1 ] and the Greek word ...
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)
Mbira – small pentatonic thumb piano. Koloko – Varieties of Sahelian lute. Varieties include the one-stringed 'Kolgo/Koliko' of Gur-speaking groups, the two-stringed 'Molo' of the Zabarma and Fulani minorities, or the two-stringed 'Gurumi' of the Hausa. Lunna/Kalangu – Varieties of Hourglass-shaped Talking drums.
Njacko is a musician who makes his instruments and is one of the new Kalimba players in the Western world. He also plays the Zaa Koua. [2] He has worked with African artists, including the late Boubacar Diabaté, Oumar Diayé, and dancer Zab Maboungo. He formed his band Njacko Backo and Kalimba Kalimba in 1990 and has independently released a ...
The band was founded in the 1960s by Mingiedi Mawangu, a virtuoso of the likembé (a traditional instrument sometimes called "sanza", kalimba, mbira or "thumb piano", consisting of metal rods attached to a resonator). The band's line-up includes three electric likembés (bass, medium and treble), equipped with hand-made microphones built from ...