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What is a kalimba?

What is a kalimba? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A type of thumb piano, similar to a mbira.
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The krar is a lyre from Africa that to many is better known as the seron or kiganda, and the mbira is better known to many as the sanza, kalimba, likembe, or sanzhi.
His music is an accessible blend of African drums, mouth harp, flute, kalimba, kora and several other instruments.
With their leaf-mittens they pick up a xylophone, a kalimba and a rain-stick to compose a playful rhythmic poem about the abstract yet omnipresent notion of time.
Enfant d'Afrique begins with a lonely kalimba soon replaced by a military drum, a thought for the children forced to become soldiers.
Mango took to the stage with just her African thumb piano, or kalimba, for company and gently eased into My Lung.
The variety of assembled instruments included a sitar, a penny whistle, a few accordions, a Celtic and a Mexican harp, an African kalimba and a Chinese dizi.

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