kalimba thumb piano

Description

Mbira are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. They consist of a wooden board with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs, the right forefinger, and sometimes the left forefinger.
Musicologists classify it as a lamellaphone
, part of the plucked idiophone
family of musical instruments. In Eastern and Southern Africa, there are many kinds of mbira, often accompanied by the hosho
, a percussion instrument. It is often an important instrument played at religious ceremonies, weddings, and other social gatherings.