African musical instruments

Mbira ( ; ) (also known as kalimba and zanza) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. They consist 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 (at minimum), the right forefinger (most mbira), and sometimes the left forefinger. Musicologists classify it as a lamellaphone, part of the plucked idiophone family of musical instruments. In Eastern and Southern Africa, there are many kinds of mbira, often accompanied by the hosho, a

simple string musical instrument

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plucked trough-zither chordophone of the Rundi people

a stringed instrument from Sub-Saharan Africa