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What's one musical instrument locally from your country? (media.piefed.social)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/casualconversation@piefed.social
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Mine (Zimbabwean 🇿🇼) is the mbira.

For a feel of the sound: https://youtu.be/R5RMYh-n3LU?si=1gMWzw6l6UxxpiLr

Jah Prayzah the guy singing is a renowned musician.

They seem to be using the mbira in modernized covers, but the metal pestle order seem the same as the more traditional looking ones.

P/S I'm not self promoting the YouTube link. It just shows how the mbira sounds unedited.

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[–] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

The Kantele

Lot's a of kids learn to play a 5-string version, but it goes up to dozens of strings, and some have a pedal to control sustain.

The origins of the instrument are finnish, but it's also popular in Japan, which is why you'll see a lot of stuff online about it in Japanese. Including the video I linked.

Here's what they can do as members of a orchestra.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    It seems like the local version of the Zither. You can have wildly different playing style on that:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAeYt-swWG0

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago*

    Well yes. There's only so many ways to suspend strings for musical purposes.

    From the Kanteles Wikipedia:

    It belongs to the southeast Baltic box zither family known as the Baltic psaltery, along with the Estonian kannel, the Latvian kokles, the Lithuanian kanklės, and the Russian gusli.

    Plenty of versions of the same thing all over the world.

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