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Thumb PianoShona - Mbira dza vadzimuZimbabwe/Lower Zambezi Culture Area Calabash, bottle caps, wood, metal
The body of the Zimbabwe/Zambezi lamellophones is always cut from a single piece of wood. As is suggested by its name dza vadzimu (of the ancestral spirits) this mbira was used long ago in the context of religious ceremonies for the ancestors. This mbira dza vadzimu has twenty-nine metal tongues (notes) arranged in two ranks and is held into a large gourd with bottle caps sewn around the gourd's rim that produce a buzzing sound when the metal tongues are played.
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