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stephzh

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What is the source of the mbiras vibration? Under what major classification of musical instruments does the mbira fall? Why?
 
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What is the relationship between the mbira music and Shona spirits? How do Shona spirits come into being?
 
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kbennett34

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Reply #1 on: Jul 25, 2018
Answer to Question 1

 The plucking of thin, long keys (tongues) produces the mbira's tones. Since the tongues of the instrument itself are plucked and vibrate to produce the tones, the instrument falls within the major classification of an idiophone. (A jew's harp operates on a similar principle.)
 The mbira is also called a linguaphone (from lingua or tongue) or a lamellaphone, a plucked idiophone. (See entries for these terms in The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, Edited by Don M. Randel, 1986, p. 434 and p. 452.) Other common names for the mbira are sansa, kalimba, and, outside of Africa, thumb piano.

Answer to Question 2

 Mbira music helps connect the living with their ancestral spirits who can help and advise the living.
 These spirits can enter the body of a living person through possession trances.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 25, 2018
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