Posts tagged 'plucking'

The Hokema Basic Sansula is a wondferul instrument for beginners. Gaiachimes explains.

You can re-tune your Sansula or Kalimba and give it a tuning of your choice. You can do it without a 50gr hammer.
Did you know? We explain how it works.

The Sansula is an innovative development of the Kalimba (also known as Sansa or Mbira).
We explain how it works, show you the different models and tell you the differences.

Kalimbas are plucking instruments which you simply play with your thumbs. Therefore they are also called thumb pianos.

The “Mbira” or “Sansa” which are the African instruments for what we now know as a Kalimba, originated from a simple halved calabash, a turtle shell or half a coconut as a resonance body.