4095 x 2661 px | 34,7 x 22,5 cm | 13,7 x 8,9 inches | 300dpi
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This amazing instrument is ancient and steeped in tradition Used for bringing on the rain weddings funerals and healing work with n angas or healers in english There are 6 types of mbira in Zimbabwe each type has 5 or 6 mbiras each across Africa there is a family of instruments used to acheive similar results When working with healers the mbira and hosho players can play continiously for days and nights The healer and the villagers requiring healing spend much time in trance and taken by spirit The mbira master is highly respected in Zimbabwe as is the instrument When played together in a hut the mbiras create magical harmonics and the people sing together in one voice pure harmony The mbira can be found across Africa with a number of different names such as sanzhi likembe and kalimba but its construction is always fundamentally the same The mbira consists of hand forged tuned metal keys bound to a wooden sound board called a gwariva Usually it also has some method of amplifying the sound often a hollowed dried gourd and items to create the characteristic buzzing sound metal beads snail shells and recently bottle caps The mbira can be found in different shapes and sizes across the country but the most traditional one the only one solely associated with religious worship and the only one to solely originate from Zimbabwe is the mbira dzavadzimu vadzimu means ancestors the mbira of the ancestors The mbira Dzavadzimu usually consists of twenty two spatulate keys The keys are mounted on three manuals two on the left and one on the right on a tray shaped soundboard with a finger hole in the lower right corner The little finger of the right hand is inserted into the hole from the front of the mbira and helps to support the instrument while playing The left bottom manual is the lowest register the left upper manual contains pitches of a middle range and the highest are played on the right manual only three fingers are used the left thumb plays both manuals of keys on the l
