Mbira
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mbira-230-1771142
title:
Mbira
text:
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,
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
African musical instrument of the lamellophone family
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbira
date created:
2002-06-24T23:08:37Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T16:45:33Z
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