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REAMTOP 10 Keys Birch Finger Thumb Piano Mbira Music Story Telling Instrument (Red)
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About REAMTOP 10 Keys Birch Finger Thumb Piano Mbira
REAMTOP Finger Piano/ African Musical Instrument Thumb Piano Backgrounds: The mbira is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs. The mbira is usually classified as part of the lamellaphone family, and part of the idiophone family of musical instruments. Members of this broad family of instruments are known by a wide variety of names. In the Anglo world it is often called a thumb piano. Indigenous African names include likembe, mbila, mbira huru, mbira njari, mbira nyunga nyunga, nhare, matepe and njari, sansu, zanzu, karimbao, marimba, karimba, kalimba, okeme, ubo, or-between the late 1960s and early 1970s-sanza, as well as marímbula (also kalimba) in the Caribbean Islands. Features: This sounding trapezoid body part is the flexible sounding bar in different length, and use wood as a resonance box. 10 key in different length offer clear and melodious sounds. A round hole with 3.5cm/1.4in diameter for a better resonance frequency. How to Play? The main function of thumb piano is used for accompaniment. When it is played, you should hold the main body by two hands, and then use two thumb to play with it. When the thumb presses and releases the piano, the steel slice will make sounds. When it is the sunset, people would like to use it for singing accompaniment or stories telling accompaniment. Specifications: Material: Durable pine & steel bar Color: Red and Wood Color Item Size: approx 16.8 × 13 × 3.1 cm / 6.6× 5.1 × 1.2 inch Item Weight: approx 265g / 9.4oz Package Size: approx 18 × 14 × 5.5cm /7 × 5.5 × 2.1 inch Package Weight: approx 310 g / 11 oz Package Including: 1 * 10 Key Mbira 1 White Box
