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	Mbira
		Board-mounted lamellaphones are often played inside gourds or bowls for increased resonance, and the timbre may be modified by attaching rattling devices to the board or resonator or by attaching metal cuffs at the base of the tongues.
		The lamellaphone is often classified as a plucked idiophone, i.e., and an instrument whose sounding parts are resonant solids.
		The lamellaphone is commonly played as an accompaniment to song, but in some areas, it is used for purely instrumental music.
	www.pnc.com.au /~helix/posters/mbira.htm (392 words)

	Lamellaphone
		Lamellaphones are a category of plucked idiophones; included in this category are the African "thumb-pianos" described below, as well as the various forms of Jew's Harp and the European mechanical music box.
		The tongues may be arranged in the manner of a piano and may be made small enough to play with individual fingers, hence the colloquial name "thumb piano".
		Some conjecture that African lamellaphones were derived from xylophones and marimbas.
	www.musicsonglyrics.org /Lamellaphone.html (262 words)

	African Music - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The lamellaphone, which is an instrument unique to Africa, consists of a series of metal or bamboo strips mounted on a board or box.
		The instrument is held in the hands or on the player's lap, and the free ends of the strips are plucked with thumbs or forefingers.
		Lamellaphones are widely distributed throughout Africa and are also referred to as mbira, kalimba, or likembe.
	au.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781532196/African_Music.html (1294 words)

	African Music - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The lamellaphone, which is an instrument unique to Africa, consists of a series of metal or bamboo strips mounted on a board or box.
		The instrument is held in the hands or on the player's lap, and the free ends of the strips are plucked with thumbs or forefingers.
		Lamellaphones are widely distributed throughout Africa and are also referred to as mbira, kalimba, or likembe.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781532196/African_Music.html (1294 words)

	N. Scott Robinson-World Music and Percussion, Frame Drums, Riq, Tambourines
		Most lamellaphones are arranged with the lowest key in the center, and the player alternately plucks right and left or vice versa (depending on how the keyboard has been set up) to ascend the scale.
		In his autobiography (1989), Davis states that, having been inspired by African lamellaphone music, he was trying to limit the scales and chords of his compositions on this recording in an effort to work in a restricted melodic/harmonic framework as a lamellaphone does.
		Lamellaphones were adopted by some musicians after they had been exposed to African sources either directly or indirectly through films and recordings.
	www.nscottrobinson.com /mbira.php (4441 words)

	Lamellaphone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the original Hornbostel-Sachs classification of musical instruments, lamellaphones are classified as a category of plucked idiophones.
		A large number of lamellaphones originate in Africa, where they are known under different names including sanza, kisanji, likembe, mbira, mbila, kalimba, and kongoma.
		The tongues may be arranged in the manner of a piano and may be made small enough to play with individual fingers, hence the colloquial name "thumb piano" (although some instruments (like the Mbira) have an additional rows of tongues, in which case not just the thumbs are used for plucking.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lamellaphone (407 words)

	Drum Journey - N. Scott Robinson Article - Mbira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		All of these recorded examples of African uses of lamellaphones in urban music are from the past 50 years, but one of the earliest examples of the use of these instruments in recorded popular music is from the African Diaspora.
		In his autobiography (1989), Davis states that, having been inspired by African lamellaphone music, he was trying to limit the scales and chords of his compositions on this recording in an effort to work in a restricted melodic/harmonic framework as a lamellaphone does.
		Lamellaphones were adopted by some musicians after they had been exposed to African sources either directly or indirectly through films and recordings.
	www.drumjourney.com /articles/srobinsm2.htm (1374 words)

	Zande lamellaphone ((1930.86.61)) from the Southern Sudan Project
		Collected by Evans-Pritchard himself during his fieldwork amongst the Zande, which took place during 1927, part of 1928 and 1929 and for several months during 1930 [CM; RTS 6/7/2004].
		Collected by Evans-Pritchard himself during his fieldwork amongst the Zande, which took place during 1927, part of 1928 and 1929 and for several months during 1930.
		A lamellaphone is a term used to refer to a plucked idiophone, where plucked keys, or lamellae, are attached to a sound board.
	southernsudan.prm.ox.ac.uk /details.php?a=(1930.86.61) (341 words)

	Kalimba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The kalimba is made from a board box or calabash: wooden or metal keys are attached to the top.
		The kalimba is a lamellaphone of Eastern Central and South West Africa.
		It isn't unusual at all that two ikembes play together: one covers the melodic accompaniment of the vocalist, while the other plays the bassline (or bourdon).
	jmceld.home.mindspring.com /kalimba.htm (480 words)

	MAKE: Blog: Lamellaphone made from a bench vise and an oven drip rack...
		Lamellaphone made from a bench vise and an oven drip rack...
		Here's an experimental lamellaphone thumb piano using a bench vise and tines from an oven drip rack from MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yapruder - Link.
		Lamellaphone - made from TV electronics - Link.
	www.makezine.com /blog/archive/2006/11/lamellaphone_ma_1.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 (458 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Musical Instruments
		The nyonganyonga is a lamellaphone an instrument consisting of thin metal or split cane tongues mounted on a resonating board or box.
		Depressing the free ends of the tongues with the thumbs produces a gentle ringing sound, sometimes augmented by jingling objects attached to the board.
		Lamellaphones are distributed across sub-Saharan Africa and were brought to Latin America by enslaved Africans.
	www.metmuseum.org /Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=18&viewmode=0&item=09.163.6 (177 words)

	Dandemutande Information Service
		I am pretty sure it came from the missionaries whose only reference was the piano which they used to teach 'natives' to sing christian hymns.
		The term lamellaphone (offically but incorrectly spelled lamellophone) is a good generic term that was devised by Prof Gerhard Kubik (in the 70s?) because it is not culture-specific and describes the 'tongues' of the instrument.
		The problem is further compounded by the fact that the terms mbira, mbila, marimba, malimba karimba, kalimba, timbila, valimba etc. all come from the same basic root and can refer to xylophones or the mbira in different situations.
	www.dandemutande.org /ListserveDisplay.asp?i=1836 (287 words)

	N. Scott Robinson-World Music and Percussion, Frame Drums, Riq, Tambourines
		However, if one were to play Shona music on a traditionally tuned mbira dza vadzimu or karimba and then on instruments that had the lamellae adjusted to Western A=440, the resultant musical performances would be recognizable as being generally the same.
		Traditionally, African musicians prefer their tuning while Western musicians wishing to perform with lamellaphones in Western contexts sometimes adjust the tuning to A=440.
		Other African lamellaphone tunings soon to be posted include budongo from Uganda, likembe from Democratic Republic of Congo, kondi from Sierra Leone, mangambeu from Cameroon, and sanza from Central African Republic.
	www.nscottrobinson.com /mbiratunings.php (1735 words)

	Mbira (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The mbira is a gourd resonated lamellaphone played by the Shona people of Zimbabwe and surrounding regions.
		The mbira is a simple board with three rows of keys attached to it, often a few bottle caps as rattles and distinguished by a hole in the bottom right corner to hold the instrument with.
		Other modern innovations include amplifying the mbira with contact microphones and mbira samples for computers and samplers..
	www.asza.com /imbira.shtml (199 words)

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		lamellaphones are often played inside gourds or bowls for increased
		The lamellaphone is often classified as a plucked idiophone, i.e., an
		The lamellaphone was described by European travelers as early as 1586.
	www.geocities.com /BourbonStreet/4759/cube.html (270 words)

	The Story of the Marimbula
		Greek phone, meaning "sound." The lamellaphones are a family of musical
		lamellaphones are indigenous to Africa, where they take a variety of
		While the marimbula is clearly descended from the African lamellaphones,
	cloudninemusical.com /TheMarimbulaText.html (3768 words)

	Entertainment: Cincinnati.Com
		The karimba is a 15-key lamellaphone, or "thumb piano." It is played by individuals to pass the time of day, for relaxing personal entertainment.
		This is a larger version of the karimba, a 23-key lamellaphone or "thumb piano." The instrument has definite spiritual and religious uses.
		It should always be played by pairs of musicians who interlock their thumbs and who interlock different musical parts.
	www.cincinnati.com /freetime/stories/053002_festivalinstruments.html (595 words)

	Plattsburgh State - Dr. Drew Waters
		Mbira: from the class of lamellaphone, idiophone linguaphone.
		Belongs to the class of instruments called lamellaphones, linguaphone many different types according to arrangement of keys, scales and size.
		Important melodic instruments include xylophones, marimbas, musical bows, zithers, horns and flutes that play only one pitch, marimbas (technically lamellaphones, more colloquially “thumb pianos) and the kora.
	faculty.plattsburgh.edu /andrew.waters/world_master_list.htm (7745 words)

	Lamellaphone - made from TV electronics » blog
		Lamellaphone - made from TV electronics » blog
		MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yapruder writes - “[Here’s a] Lamellaphone using lozenge tin and tines made by trimming a small metal comb from interior electronics of a television set.” - Link.
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	www.pubgin.com /2006/10/22/lamellaphone-made-from-tv-electronics (93 words)

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		Lori Kesner (flute DMA student) made this lamellaphone with a wood board, a metal crossbar and bridge, plastic chop sticks, and bottle cap buzzers.
		The lamellae for this mbira dzavadzimu are mede from chop sticks.
		I don't recall what the student used for lamellae.
	home.fuse.net /WorldMusic/Classes/WM_I_F02/class_project_photos.htm (162 words)

	Timbuktunes -- CD Info
		Eager to share his culture, he began to teach percussion, and also the traditional dances and songs of the Congo.
		But the true sensibility of this discreet artist was revealed in intimate concerts before small audiences, when he performed songs of his own composition to the sound of the likembe (a lamellaphone with a box-like body and 8-12 keys).
		His success led him to record his first album, ‘Percussions congolaises’, devoted to Congolese percussion music.
	www.timbuktunes.com /cd/cd-info.php?ttcode=TT-20146&title=Mbemba (345 words)

	All About Jazz \| Email This Article
		Joined by ICP stalwart reedmen Ab Baars and Tobias Delius and bassist Wilbert de Joode, guitarist Andy Moor (the Ex), percussionists Michael Vatcher and Tony Buck, classical flutist Anne La Berge and Nora Mulder's cimbalom (a large Hungarian dulcimer), Fuhler's Corkestra certainly has a wide sonic palette.
		Fuhler is not just a pianist, however--his piano is rarely heard without augmentation from various preparatory tools and contact mikes, and is sometimes replaced by analog keyboards, melodicas, electric lamellaphone, and a pervasively raspy clavinet that makes Mike Ratledge sound like a cathedral organist.
		One of Fuhler's hallmarks is the merging of sounds in such a way as to make their origins require a sleuth.
	www.allaboutjazz.com /php/article_email.php?id=16385 (612 words)

	Salsa Glossary - Salsa ABC - M
		Given that they require little physical effort, they are generally entrusted to the main or chorus singers.
		Of the lamellaphone family, it is a large resonant wooden with a thumb piano constructed in the opening of the box; the musician makes the metal keys vibrate by plucking them with the fingers and the sound is amplified by the wooden box.
		The length of the keys determines the note’s pitch.
	www.salsa-in-cuba.com /eng/glossary_m.html (483 words)

	Harare
		Harare is one of the few groups to be playing Zimbabwean dance music in Europe.Formed by two musicians from the heart of Zimbabwean urban music; Harare combines different styles from Jit Jive to traditional hypnotic rhythms of the mbira (lamellaphone) which reflect the different backgrounds of the people who make up the group.
		Harare music is also heavily influenced by 'Afro-Mbira,' the genre developed by Thomas Mapfumo.
		Harare is also available as an acoustic set; marimba, acoustic guitar and percussion.
	hararemusic.com (221 words)

	Musurgia - Fine, Rare & Peculiar Musical Instruments
		Book Leaf Clipping with Photo of a duo playing mbo nggo, the lamellaphone or "thumb piano" of central Cameroon's Tikar people - The Secret Museum of Mankind, c.
		Book Leaf Clipping with Photo of a duo playing mbo nggo, the lamellaphone or "thumb piano" of central Cameroon's Tikar people, The Secret Museum of Mankind publisher, c.
		Titled "Master-Musicians Performing on Gourd Piano", the photo's caption warns: "If a chief discovers a man with the special gift of musicgouge out his eyes"
	www.musurgia.com /Products.asp?ProductID=354 (192 words)

	Sansa, Gbaya tribe, Cameroon, at the National Music Museum
		Click on any image on this page to see a larger view.
		Plucked lamellaphone (sansa), Gbaya tribe, western grasslands region of Cameroon, ca.
		The fl, sooty exterior and smokey smell of this sansa indicate that it was once used and kept in a hut where it was exposed to in-house cooking fires.
	www.usd.edu /smm/Africa/4173/Sansa4173.html (153 words)

	MAKE: Blog: Lamellaphone - made from TV electronics
		MAKE: Blog: Lamellaphone - made from TV electronics
		MAKE Flickr photo pool member Yapruder writes - "[Here's a] Lamellaphone using lozenge tin and tines made by trimming a small metal comb from interior electronics of a television set." - Link.
		Weird DIY Instruments - Les Luthiers - Link.
	www.makezine.com /blog/archive/2006/10/lamellaphone_ma.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890 (454 words)

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