Ikembe
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ikembe-173-6321336
title:
Ikembe
text:
Ikembe, is a type of musical instrument of the lamellaphone group, common amongst the people of Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo. The instrument consists of several iron lamellae, fixed to a rectangular wooden soundbox. In Swahili the word imba means song. Kuimba means to sing, as in the phrase "nitakwenda kuimba". Swahili, as in many languages, uses a type of binomial nomenclature to create new words to describe unfamiliar or new objects, occurrences or people, based on existing words or concepts.
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Type of musical instrument, lamellophone
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikembe
date created:
2008-08-04T08:51:18Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T05:20:19Z
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