African music ... first off ... awesome! I love the complex drum beats so much ... but I recently learned about, and got to play with, an African instrument that I've never seen, or even heard before (to my knowledge). It's called the mbira (mmm-bee-rah) and it sounds so cool!
Picture B
It has a xylophone-like sound, but not quite. One strikes the metal or bamboo keys and it sound somewhat like the xylophone, but it also makes this neat rattling sound. Picture A doesn't have the colorful metal pieces around the top of the metal bars like the Picture B does, but it has metal bottle caps attached to the metal board behind them to make the rattling sound common in mbira music. Below is a soundtrack of the mbira. Notice the buzzing sound of the mbira. Buzzing is a sound that is often found in African music.
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