Kalimba redirects here. For the Mexican singer Kalimba, see: Kalimba Marichal. Kalimba is an instrument in the percussion family. It is a modernized version of the African mbira. It is a sound box with metal keys attached to the top to give the different notes. Also known as the African Thumb Piano. The kalimba is a musical instrument from Africa.Several reeds or tines are plucked with the thumb orfingers, and the reed vibrations are amplified by ahollow box resonator or a sounding board. The kalimbais a member of the Lamellophone family ofmusical instruments. The first kalimba to be exported commercially out of Africawas the Hugh Tracey Kalimba. After years of studyof African music and dozens of prototype instruments,Hugh Tracey's company African Musical Instrumentsbegan manufacturing kalimbas, a western version of thembira, in the late 1950s. The name

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