In the early 1960s, when Stella Chiweshe was a teenager in the southern African country of Zimbabwe, she wanted to learn mbira -- a thumb piano with metal keys that was used primarily in spirit ...
The mbira, or Zimbabwean thumb piano, is a revered ceremonial instrument from Southern Africa with two rows of metal keys mounted on a wooden soundboard. Players use thumb and forefinger to pluck the ...
Learning to play the mbira was merely Zimbabwean musician Stella Chiweshe's first revolutionary act. The metal-keyed instrument (sometimes called a "thumb piano") had been the exclusive domain of men, ...
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