FUNS: It doesn't matter how much musical experience you have. ANYBODY can sound good on this! It's fun to see your family's and friend's eyes light up when they realize they can play an instrument!PORTABLE: Most instruments are heavy and bulky basically impossible to transport. This mbira is small and lightweight it`s perfect to take on a trip.PERFORMANCE: The metal keys are comfortable enough to play for at least 15 minutes without getting scraped or sore or anything of that nature.GREAT GIFT: Smooth surface nice polish the thumb piano make a very delicate but not-to-expensive birthday or Christmas gift.TUNNING: You can tunning youself by adjust the reed`s positIon occasionally some murmur apprear you can simply loose two screws and to tight the two screws before you play music next timeProduct DescriptionREAMTOP Finger Piano/ African Musical Instrument
Thumb Piano Backgrounds:
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.
Members of this broad family of instruments are known by a wide variety of names. In the Anglo world it is often called a thumb piano. Indigenous African names include likembe?? mbila?? mbira huru?? mbira njari?? mbira nyunga nyunga?? nhare?? matepe and njari?? sansu?? zanzu?? karimbao?? marimba?? karimba?? kalimba?? okeme?? ubo?? or-between the late 1960s and early 1970s-sanza?? as well as mar?mbula (also kalimba) in the Caribbean Islands.
Features:
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 3.5cm/1.4in diameter for a better resonance frequency.
How to Play?
The main function of thumb