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    • Kalimba

    also called thumb piano, metal tongues on a resonance body

    Kalimba

    Kalimba or also called a thumb piano. Typical African accompanying instrument, the sansula is a special version.

    Kalimba or Mbira are African names, in German it is called a thumb piano.
    Metal tongues are attached to a hollow resonance body, swinging freely. The kalimba is held between both hands and the thumbs can pluck the tongues. Depending on the length of the tongue, a different tone is created.
    The body can be a wooden box, a coconut or a gourd.
    A special kalimba is the sansula with an drumskin for resonance. The tongues are not placed on a body but on a small frame drum. In an elegant, oval shape, it nestles well in the hands.

    Kalimba

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    At this Kalimba the resonsance-box is made from a coconut.

    with 7 metal tongues, not tuned

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    Kalimba

    Sansula

    the sansula is a kalimba, but the resonance comes from a drum skin, so it gives a vibrating sound, pentatonic tuning, dreamful and relaxing

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    The Sansula is a thumb-piano, also called Kalimba. But here it is fixed on a drumskin.
    Because this the instrument become a lot of resonance.
    The Sansula is pentatonic tuned in a-minor.
    Because the pentatonic tuning it is dreamfull and intuitv to play..

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