Mbira Background: The mbira 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. The mbira is usually classified as part of the lamellaphone family, and part of the idiophone family of musical instruments. Description: The Portable Finger Thumb Piano Mbira is an education toy musical instrument specialized for music lover and beginner. This sounding trapezoid body part is the flexible sounding bar in different length, and uses wood as a resonance box. It is small in size, easy to use, and made of durable birch wood and steel bar. This sounding trapezoid body part is the flexible sounding bar in different length, and use wood as a resonance box. 10 key in different length offer clear and melodious sounds. A round hole with 3.5 centimeters/1.4 inches diameter for a better resonance frequency. You just need to push down on a key with a thumb or finger. When the key is released, the vibration resonates in the wooden body, making nice sound. In your leisure time, you can play this thumb piano mbira for singing accompaniment, walking accompaniment, or stories telling accompaniment. Specifications: Material: Birch and Steel Item Size: 17 x 12.5 x 4 cm / 6.7 x 4.9 x 1.6 inch Item Weight: 213 grams/7.5 ounces Package Size: 18.7x13.5x5.5 centimeters/7.4x 5.3 x2.2 inches Package Weight: 270 grams/ 9.5 ounces Package Content: 1 x Thumb piano
P**G
Highly Recommended
My non-musical partner has been desperate to find a musical instrument that he could actually play, and I’ve been desperate to find one that I could tolerate listening to, as he played it. I’ve found it in this little thumb piano. No matter what he does with it, it sounds lovely. Very reasonable, solidly made, and to my untrained ear, in tune.
F**X
Odd Tines But Good Quality
A nice starter Kalimba for the price. Please not it has no holes in the back and I feel that the tines are on mirrored sides to most common kalimba setups.The 10 note version was a good balence of non-intimidating but complex enough to follow quite a bit of stabdard piano sheet music, but I found myself quickly wanting to move onto a 17 key.Very easy for anyone to pick up and get fairly fast results in terms of beinf able to play a tune or improvise.
M**A
Basic instrument for a basic price
It's basic, but does the job for "playing around with".It's loud enough and if like me you just want to "try one", it's not a bad price/performance.I know there are better quality versions, but at 2x or 3x the price.Probably worth it if you're serious about this as an instrument, but if you just want to "have a go" this is perfectly adequate.
A**N
pretty good value
Exactly as it looked - no instructions but got for one of 10 yr old's birthday presents and she could play simple tunes on it within a few minutes. Pretty sound and not annoying for parents!!!! Speedy delivery
K**E
Great, but 2 bum notes!
Nice little unit, with a lovely tone - however, a note on either side are faulty & make an awful noise! This suins the overall performance!
A**Y
Lovely thumb piano!
This is brilliant! I bought it as a present for my teenage musician son, and he loves it. It's very well made for the price, I even bought another for my youngest. A must for any budding musician.
L**E
Good little add on gift.
Excellent little gift for my dad’s birthday. He’s very happy with it...even if my mother isn’t pleased with the noise :) !
D**Y
Sounds nice
Lovely size and sounds really nice. I wasn’t expecting it to be this good considering the price.
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