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mbira
Shona · medieval
"a plucked lamellophone central to Shona spiritual life"
a hand-held instrument with metal tines, played in ceremonies to honor ancestral spirits
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Stage 2 of 2
mbira
English · 1900s
"an African thumb piano with metal keys plucked by the thumbs"
entered English through ethnomusicology and world-music circles describing the instrument
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