17-Key Thumb Piano - Kalimba, an Awesome Musical Talent Cultivating Music Instrument Gift to Kids, Beginners, Friends, Lovers
More about Kalimba
Kalimba is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines,
played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs. It is usually classified as part of the lamellaphone family,
and part of the idiophone family of musical instruments.
In the Anglo world it is often called a thumb piano. Indigenous African names include likembe, mbila, mbira huru, mbira njari,
mbira nyunga nyunga, nhare, matepe and njari, sansu, zanzu, karimbao, marimba, karimba, kalimba, okeme, ubo, or-between
the late 1960s and early 1970s-sanza, as well as marímbula (also kalimba) in the Caribbean Islands.
Purchase Guidance:
■ The Karimba has a tuning and note layout that could be 500 years old. We cannot trace-back the original tunes, but we are trying our best to modem life. It\'s a useful gift.
■ Color Might Be Slightly Different From Pictures Due To The Nature Of Wood.
It is tuned and tested well before shipment .It adopts international standard C tone, and use double-screw keys to strengthen the stability,
furthermore solid wood body for it which makes resonance more sufficient. The timbre seems warm,and sound lasts long.
International standard C tune - 1(D), 2(B), 3(G), 4(E), 5(C5), 6(A), 7(F), 8(D), 9(C4), 10(E), 11(G), 12(B), 13(D), 14(F), 15(A), 16(C6), 17(E)