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Gravikord, an electrified double harp that is a modern kora and kalimba hybrid, inspired by the cross rhythms of the mbira. The Gravikord was invented in 1986 by Bob Grawi, an American musician and artist. It is also tuned in the key of G major/E minor in an extended version of the Hugh Tracey kalimba tone layout with a range of 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 ...
The Array mbira / ə m ˈ b ɪər ə / is a handcrafted modern musical instrument with a unique harp- or bell-like sound. It is made in the United States by its inventor Bill Wesley and manufactured by Wesley with Patrick Hadley in San Diego, California, United States. Its development began in the 1960s. [1]
The Gravikord is a 24 string electric double bridge-harp invented by Robert Grawi in 1984, [1] which is closely related to both the West African kora and the mbira. It was designed to employ a separated double tonal array structure making it possible to easily play cross-rhythms in a polyrhythmic musical style in a modern electro-acoustic ...
Mbira player with other musicians from 1865 book Mbira dzavadzimu Hosho commonly used to accompany mbira music. Though musicologist Hugh Tracey believed the mbira to be nearing extinction in the 1930s, the instrument has been revived since the 60s and 70s, and has gained an international following through the world music scene.
A number of instruments have been invented, designed, and made, that make sound from matter in its liquid state. This class of instruments is called hydraulophones. Hydraulophones use an incompressible fluid, such as water, as the initial sound-producing medium, and they may also use the hydraulic fluid as a user-interface.
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 ...
All musical instruments invented in Africa, by Native Africans, pre-European colonization. ... Mbira; R. Rock gong This page was last edited on 22 September 2019, at ...
The late Chiwoniso Maraire was described as the "Zimbabwe mbira queen" [6] and "a true ambassador of the Zimbabwean culture". [ 7 ] [ 4 ] Dumisani Maraire, Jr. performs under the stage name Draze ; [ 6 ] [ 8 ] Tendai Maraire is part of hip hop duos Shabazz Palaces and Chimurenga Renaissance ; and Zhiyanai Maraire performs as ZNi International.