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Any idea what instrument this is?

  • 14-11-2010 12:15AM
    #1
    Stompbox
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,811 ✭✭✭


    Birdman from Portugal. Plays some tropical sounding handheld instrument, I'd love to know what it is!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzod3CotfAg


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  • #2
    damonjewel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,148 ✭✭✭damonjewel


    I think its called a Kalimba, Its like an xylophone. A row of metal strips of different lengths have different pitches. However you pluck them with your thumb to play a note.


  • #3
    ColmDawson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,001 ✭✭✭ColmDawson


    The Shona people of Zimbabwe use something very similar, called an mbira (also known as kalimba, according to Wikipedia). That guy in the video is playing it solo, but in Shona music you'd have two of them, with each player picking out a simple melody that interlocks with the other to create more complex and often polyrhythmic/polymetric melodies.


  • #4
    Bootsy.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 456 ✭✭Bootsy.


    Thumb piano!

    I saw Konono No 1 last summer in Kilkenny, Great stuff:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cU19URUe6o


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2ZaPNR_I04


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