The multi-named thumb piano is quite an important foundational instrument for contemporary music all over the world, although it's perhaps not always recognized as such. In Congo, colonial era ...

The mbira, or “thumb piano,” a traditional African instrument, is declining in popularity in big cities, a musician and seller of traditional musical instruments from Cape Town, South Africa told ...

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What are they? "Thumb piano" is a generic, westernised name for a range of different sub-Saharan lamellophones (instruments played by plucking tuned fixed metal tines or keys). Usually, thumb piano ...

In Zimbabwe, there's a resurgence of interest in the mbira, sometimes called the thumb piano. The instrument was all but legally banned by colonial rulers.

Some have devised the name "thumb piano" to try and give the mbira instrument an exotic name. It was in a similar vein that an allusion to "thick porridge" was made as reference to sadza. Well, mbira ...

A new interactive Google Doodle lets users try their hand at a traditional Zimbabwean instrument that has been played for over 1,000 years. Today’s Doodle celebrates Zimbabwe’s national instrument, ...

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