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    Mbira (/əmˈbɪərə/ əm-BEER-ə) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. They consist of a wooden board (often fitted...
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    The Array mbira /əmˈbɪərə/ is a handcrafted modern musical instrument with a unique harp- or bell-like sound. It is made in the United States by its inventor...
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    Zimbabwean music is heavily reliant on the use of instruments such as the mbira, Ngoma drums and hosho. Their music symbolizes much more than a simple rhythm...
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    albums. Mbira dzeNharira revolutionized the sound of mbira by electrifying and rearranging the instruments into bass baritone, rhythm and lead mbira. The...
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    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"...
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  • The following is a list of players of the mbira, an African plucked lamellophone musical instrument. Tendayi Gahamadze Thomas Mapfumo Chartwell Dutiro...
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    as major instruments in many traditional Shona music genres, such as in mbira ensembles and in mhande. They typically contain hota (Canna indica) seeds...
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  • Owethu Mbira (born 6 March 1987) is a South African professional boxer who competed from 2008 to 2011. As an amateur, he won a bronze medal at lightweight...
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    njari mbira, and matepe. The mbira is played at religious and secular gatherings, and different mbiras have different purposes. The 22–24-key mbira dzavadzimu...
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    In Zimbabwean Shona music, a deze is a halved calabash gourd that an mbira is placed into to amplify its sound. It is typically round and has bottle caps...
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    Matepe (redirect from Mbira matepe)
    people. It is one of the five main types of mbira played in Zimbabwe. The matepe is an umbrella term for many mbira-style instruments such as hera, matepe...
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  • band Hohodza – band Mbira dzeNharira – mbira band Mechanic Manyeruke and the Puritans – gospel music group R.U.N.N. family – mbira-inspired reggae and...
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  • of the mbira. Leonard Dembo poised for national hero status. Leonard Dembo remembered 25 years on. Albums Music of Zimbabwe Shona language Mbira, the non-profit...
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    singer, songwriter, and exponent of Zimbabwean mbira music. She was the daughter of Zimbabwean mbira master and teacher Dumisani Maraire (and former...
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    Inhambane Province, in southern Mozambique. It is not to be confused with the mbira. The style of music played on it is believed to be the most sophisticated...
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  • Albert Chimedza (born 1955) is a Zimbabwean poet and founder of the Mbira Centre. His only collection of poetry, Counterpoint was published in 1984, together...
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    is an American multi-instrumentalist specializing in piano, zither and mbira. His albums include the 1980 release Ambient 3: Day of Radiance, produced...
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  • Shona music (section Mbira)
    varieties of mbira including the mbira dzavadzimu and mbira nyunga nyunga. Shona music is well known as representative of mbira ("thumb piano") music. The performer...
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    playing the mbira, and toured with them internationally. During the 1980s, to continue a revitalisation of mbira music, Chiweshe amplified her mbira and introduced...
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  • clapping. The two mbira players are joined by a player on a pair of gourd shakers (hosho), which emphasize the underlying triplet beat. The mbira playing and...
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  • the piano, harp, and marimba. Lamellophones including mbira, mbila, mbira huru, mbira njari, mbira nyunga, marimba, karimba, kalimba, likembe, and okeme...
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    African music, is particularly known for its study of the lamellophone mbira of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, as well as the Chopi people's Timbila, a variant...
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    launeddas lur madal mandocello mandola mandolin & octave mandolin marimbula mbira/thumb piano melodeon mountain dulcimer mridangam musical saw nyckelharpa...
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  • instruments like mbira. It is a solo project, I just orchestrated on the sidelines with a new and dynamic team. My aim was to experiment with the mbira sound on...
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  • master performer of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. He specialized in the form of mbira called nyunga nyunga, as...
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  • the piano, harp, or marimba. Lamellophones including mbira, mbila, mbira huru, mbira njari, mbira nyunga, marimba, karimba, kalimba, likembe, and okeme...
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    pitched percussion Kalimba idiophones 122.1 Zimbabwe pitched percussion Mbira Kayamb (Kayamba) idiophones Africa Kemanak idiophones Indonesia unpitched...
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  • began to adopt American Hip hop trends, leaning less on the stagnant local Mbira Hip hop. Though exported globally by groups like Zimbabwe Legit, hip hop...
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    Tendayi buy his own Mbira, which he did. With this Mbira, he went to another Mbira manufacturer, Seke, who made two more mbiras of the same tuning for...
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    split, and plucked idiophones, such as claves, xylophone, guiro, slit drum, mbira, and rattle. Membranophones, which produce sound by a vibrating a stretched...
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