Kalimba

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.

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

with 7 metal tongues, not tuned

Kalimba

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..

Sansula