[net.wobegon] Thumb Pianos

rmrin@inuxa.UUCP (D Rickert) (08/17/86)

Years ago we bought a thing called a
"kalimba" at some museum or world's
fair.  The blurb said that while the
model we have in not "authentic
african" it is based on a traditional
african instrument.  It's polished
wood with about  a dozen metal reeds
in front of the sound hole of a box
shaped vaguely like a zither (reduced
to 1/10 life size).  Sounds like the
same thing.

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