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.

  • troglodyte_mignon@tarte.nuage-libre.frEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I remember hearing a mbira recording as a young child and loving it. (I didn’t know that word, though, people called it a « thumb piano ».) Then at some point I had the opportunity to try one, but I didn’t know how to play so the result was disappointing, and the metal things made my tiny fingers hurt, ha ha. The video sounds really nice!