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East African Antique - Hand Carved - Finger Harp / Thumb Piano - $175 (West Los Angeles - Please See Map On This Page)
Military Avenue near Charnock Road
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Very Rare Antique Africa Art Piece
Hand Carved Wood Indigenous Tribal Head and Feet, with Shells and Metal Tines
9 Metal Keys and Base
African Congo
Museum Quality
This hand carved tropical hardwood tribal head thumb piano or Kalimba is an African tribal native musical instrument.
A type of plucked idiophone(lamellophone) common throughout Sub-Saharan Africa.
Also known as a"sansa" and"mbira"
It is popular throughout central, western and eastern Africa.
The kalimba is played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs.
The name kalimba was originally only used for the gourd thumb piano.
It is often an important instrument played at religious - spiritual indigenous ceremonies, weddings, and other social gatherings. The "Art of crafting and playing Mbira/Sansi, the finger-plucking traditional musical instrument in Malawi and Zimbabwe"
I am sorry the photos are not so sharp. It is much nicer functional art peice in real life.
$175 or Please make a fair offer
Just reduced price from $380
Must sell
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Percussion like Music
African music includes the genres makwaya, highlife, mbube, township music, jùjú, fuji, jaiva, afrobeat, afrofusion, mbalax, Congolese rumba, soukous, ndombolo, makossa, kizomba, taarab and others.