Ian Dogole udu, mbira, hang, dumbek & talking drum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dove's Eye View:] Reference

It sits beside a thumb piano, or mbira, I received in the Kalahari.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bushman Way of Tracking God] Reference

He sat down on my floor and immediately set about educating me in mbira lore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

Anyway, there's also an interesting mix of mbira music by women from Zimbabwe.    From Wordnik.com.  [going there.] Reference

But the core of his sound is the metal-pronged traditional hand piano called the mbira.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Different Musical Takes on Politics in Zimbabwe] Reference

It is through the mbira that that the ancestors are called upon to intercede for the supplicant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

Garakayi is in Zimbabwe now, but he is returning, and he wants to put together a 28 piece mbira orchestra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

Later actual mbira players joined the band lineup, and they remain prominent in Mapfumo's newest release "Rise Up.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Different Musical Takes on Politics in Zimbabwe] Reference

I have to say that being in the same room with a master of Garakayi's caliber, listening to the mbira is pretty intense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

Mapfumo's electric guitar renditions of mbira music in the '70s came to symbolize resistance against colonial oppression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Different Musical Takes on Politics in Zimbabwe] Reference

When I interviewed Nora Balaban who studied mbira in Zimbabwe, she told me of a master player named Garikayi Tirikoti who was living only a few city blocks from me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

One of its jewels is the music of the mbira, an instrument that has been used for thousands of years for spiritual practice as well as for purely musical gatherings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

The likembe (similar to the mbira or kalimba) that gives the band its signature resonating, nuanced, jingling melody is hand crafted from items salvaged from a junkyard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dustin Reid: Konono No 1's DIY Spirit Fills Prospect Park And Le Poisson Rouge (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW)] Reference

If time and space permit, I'll also post Banning's demonstrations about working a part out for guitar and mbira, and get into the group's side-project with poet Bob Holman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: In and Out of Africa: Banning, Nora and Timbila] Reference

In his never-ending quest to learn more about the mbira, he's bringing Master Musician.    From Wordnik.com.  [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference

Kolodner set up his PA system, hammered dulcimer and hammered mbira and performed outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home/News] Reference

Zuzana Novak, Anglo-Czech mbira queen, contributed some atmospheric mbira music from Zimbabwe.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Photown News] Reference

He drops beats on the hand drum like it's an extension of his soul and plays the mbira with precision.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

The hand-held mbira, for example, is played by the Budya in Zimbabwe, the Linkembe in Congo and the Vendas in South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

She learned to play the mbira, the African thumb piano, at age 4 and was performing on her parents 'album "Tichazomuona" at age.    From Wordnik.com.  [TimesArgus.com: Sports] Reference

He studied the sacred mbira (an African thumb piano) and wrote controversial lyrics, opposing the tyrannical Zimbabwean regime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summit Daily News - Top Stories] Reference

But he, too, was not to be defeated: he took up the mbira, an African thumb piano that he plays with two thumbs and an index finger.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Hukwe Zawose (who sang and performed the ilimba, similar to the mbira) had passed away, although I found his family and collaborated with them.    From Wordnik.com.  [coloradoan.com - Local News] Reference

Berry's electric mbira, which he developed, is the only instrument of its kind and produces the distinctive sound that characterizes CB-3's music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Durangoherald.com] Reference

Along with laptops on both their parts, Taylor plays drums, mbira and vibraphone (sometimes all at the same time). and Mazurek is cornet and electronics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spinner] Reference

Brazil street music appears ( "Carnivao"); the mbira hint at Africa ( "Atom's Song"); intercultural messages are embedded into the Gnawa ( "Salaam Shalom").    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

You may have seenIan Caliendo around town accompanying his lovely wife Lila (see above) on the mbira (you know the Zimbabwean thump piano with the hypnotic sound).    From Wordnik.com.  [North Coast Journal Comments] Reference

It is ultimately a very satisfying search, as other instruments - oud, keys, mbira, accordion, cello, and a wide variety of percussion devices-join in to propel the expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

Apart from books to give to the children and library, our list includes a little wooden elephant and hippo, a finger-puppet hare, a small mbira (thumb piano) and an oyster shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

This Zimbabwean singer does a fine job of integrating the sound of her instrument, the mbira (traditional thumb piano), with the requirements of making a contemporary pop record.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

Throughout both there are unexpectedly beautiful juxtapositions of the digital and analog, hard drum-machine beats set against softer bongos or the resonant sweetness of an mbira.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

One of its jewels is the music of the mbira.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

I wonder if he ever listens to mbira music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

(I wonder if he ever listens to mbira music ...).    From Wordnik.com.  [Michal Shapiro: The Good News From Zimbabwe: Healing Music of the Mbira] Reference

It is a modernized version of the southern African mbira. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [MetaFilter] Reference

Chiwoniso is a master of the mbira.    From Wordnik.com.  [London Free Press] Reference

Chris Berry - lead vocals, mbira, percussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [bt.etree.org] Reference

By the age of four I was playing mbira.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Music Central] Reference

(optigan, stylophone, baritone ukulele, mbira, thumb piano).    From Wordnik.com.  [Day in Rock Report] Reference