Mine (Zimbabwean 🇿🇼) is the mbira.

For a feel of the sound: https://youtu.be/R5RMYh-n3LU

Jah Prayzah the guy singing is a renowned musician.

They seem to be using the mbira in modernized covers, but the metal pestle order seem the same as the more traditional looking ones.

P/S I’m not self promoting the YouTube link. It just shows how the mbira sounds unedited.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    Well yes. There’s only so many ways to suspend strings for musical purposes.

    From the Kanteles Wikipedia:

    It belongs to the southeast Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Estonian kannel, the Latvian kokles, the Lithuanian kanklės, and the Russian gusli.

    Plenty of versions of the same thing all over the world.