1. Nashville Scene - Glorious Distortion
... Featuring the distorted buzz of amplified thumb pianos called likemb©s, ferociously grooving drums and vocals shouted through megaphones, the performances on their album Congotronics have affinities ...
http://www.nashscene.com/ .../Glorious_Distortion/
2. http://www.purlygates.com/stafftraining.html
... Some of the possible projects include: shakers, straw oboes, rainsticks, cuicas, pan pipes, washtub bass, drums, one-string jug banjos, tubaphones, thumb-pianos and marimbas. How many projects are ...
3. Piano Focus - Thumb Pianos
... Story And Clark Pianos Suzuki Digital Pianos Suzuki Pianos Technics Digital Pianos Technics Pianos Thumb Pianos Toy Pianos Tuning Pianos Two Pianos Four Hands Upright Organ Pianos Upright Pianos ...
http://www.pianofocus.com/thumbpianos/
4. Dusty Groove America - Global Grooves CD
... CD KONONO NO 1 Congotronics A group with a unique sound -- one that features home-made electronics and amplification, and an array of highly-percussive instrumentation that includes thumb pianos ...
http://www.dustygroove.com/globalcd.htm
5. MusicMakerStore.com - The Music Makers Store - Keyboard Instruments > Wor...
World Instruments: "> Home > Keyboard Instruments > World Instruments Harmoniums Thumb Pianos Search the MusicMakerStore: BEST SELLERS SanDisk SDSDB-1024-A10 1 GB Secure Digital Card Sale ...
http://www.musicmakerstore.com/cat.php?cat_id=3700
6. James Jones Thumb Pianos
James Jones Thumb Pianos Navigational links... Assorted Links Bouzoukis/Mandolins Bowed Psalteries Current Stock Customer Comments Dulcimer Accessories Featured Musicians Folk Harps Guitars Hammered ...
http://www.jamesjonesinst ...iano/thumbpianos.html
7. http://www.sobs.com/african/1117.html
8. The Suburbs Are Killing Us
... they use very diverse rhythms, timbres and instrumentation: the trademark electrified thumb pianos and megaphones are joined by an array of buzzing drums, swirling guitars and hypnotic ...
http://www.christopherpor ...-rumble-from-urb.html
9. Conga Drums at congadrums.com
http://congadrums.com/
10. Ray's Mbira Page
... Sometimes people refer to this family of instruments as "Kalimbas", "Karimbas", or "Thumb Pianos". The Shona word for these instruments is "Mbira", and because I play Shona mbira, that's the term I ...
http://www.rayashley.com/superlink/mbira.htm
11. Thumb Pianos - Lucinda Ellison Musical Instruments
... Recently this term "mbira" has come to replace "thumb piano" as the more traditional-sounding generic term for the many styles of thumb pianos and plucked idiophones of the world. For centuries the ...
http://www.harmonicjourne ...ucindathumppianos.php
12. Afropop Worldwide
... Mbira has become a general term for this entire class of instruments--lamellophones--popularly known as "thumb pianos." mbira: Thumb piano of the Shona people in Zimbabwe. Played by plucking metal ...
http://www.afropop.org/explore/glossary.php
13. Art and Craft Heritage Exhibition, Pietersburg
... Musical instruments that continue to be used for social and ritual purposes like drums, xylophones and thumb pianos, refer to inherited knowledge because the skills needed to make them and the music ...
http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/heritage/knowledge.htm
14. Glenn Donaldson / Jewelled Antler Collective
... We did a performance once called "Pine Cone Temples" where we were surrounded by pine cones which Loren plucked like thumb pianos, & we projected a film of flaming pine cones. Basically it's fun & ...
http://www.fakejazz.com/interviews/jewelled.shtml
15. Outside the Roots: cdFronds: cdRoots.com
... Three likembe (mbira, or thumb pianos), electrified and amplified are at the core of the experience, accompanied by singers, percussionists, dancers a sound system that makes the average urban ...
http://www.cdroots.com/fronds.shtml
16. Heritage Gift Shop
... Kwanzaa Materials: Books Kinaras Candles Kalimbas (thumb pianos) Prints Post Cards Insert image & description of available merchandise. Powered by GTAC Web Services. This page was last updated ...
http://www.blackhistorymuseum.org/gifts.htm