Mbira in a sentence

With the increased popularity of the mbira in North America, Europe, and Japan in recent decades, Zimbabwean mbira makers have tended to tune their instruments more uniformly for export, but much variation is still found among mbira in their homeland.

The mbira nyunga nyunga is similar in construction to the mbira dzavadzimu, but has no hole in the soundboard.

Built on a collection of percussive instruments like mbira, ngoma, marimbas and chipendani, the music also brings people together — no small detail as the world continues to reemerge from a cocoon of quarantine and social distancing.

Carmen is a passionate musician and artist from Bulawayo, Zimbabwe who shares her expertise as a vocal, traditional dance, and mbira coach.

Her three albums, Hope, Mbira, Love and Chocolate and The Exorcism of A Spinster (watch the word spinster here, it evokes a deep meaning) seem to have failed to do the trick.

Makumbe is a former national bantamweight boxing champion-turned-referee who has traded the gloves for the mbira instrument, and has since recruited five others from around her area of origin to undertake regular performances at the heritage site.

They were artists, whiskey drinkers and mbira players.

The Zimbabwean mbira player and chanteuse died tragically young at 37, before she had fulfilled her vast potential.

Mbira princess Hope Masike on Friday put on a visual and aural spectacle as she launched her third album titled The Exorcism of a Spinster at Reps Theatre in Harare.

On a different note, the music fraternity has received with great sadness yet another shocking news of the passing-on of former Blacks Unlimited mbira player, singer, songwriter, composer, author and teacher, Chartwell Dutiro.

In essence, Mapfumo is a self-taught guitarist whose guitar style emulates the patterns of the traditional Shona mbira.

I was experimenting and I thought it couldn’t be done because the difficult part about the mbira is that it’s different from the keyboard.

Meanwhile, the launch of the anthology will feature acoustic performances by talented mbira player and singer Hope Masike and well-known drummer Mangoma.

ND: To date the festival has been exclusively sponsored by the Mbira Centre.

THE outbreak of cholera in most parts of the country, particularly Harare, has forced organisers of the Zimbabwe Mbira Festival to postpone their two-day festival that was scheduled for September 21 and 22 in the capital.

A mbira key produces a rich complex of overtones that varies from one instrument to another depending on its maker's intentions and accidents of fabrication, such that some instruments simply sound better when some notes of a familiar tuning are pushed.

A single Mbira is considered incomplete for a performance. citation * Dambatsoko ( Ionian mode ), played by the Mujuru family.

A typical mbira dzavadzimu consists of between 22 and 28 keys constructed from hot- or cold- forged metal affixed to a hardwood soundboard (gwariva) in three different registers—two on the left, one on the right.

During a public performance, an mbira dzavadzimu is frequently placed in a deze ( calabash resonator) to amplify its sound.

In the mid 1950s the mbira was the basis for the development of the kalimba, a westernized version designed and marketed by the ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey, leading to a great expansion of its distribution outside of Africa.