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FEMUSINDO.com - Mbira is a traditional musical instrument from Zimbabwe, a state in South Africa that is played by pressing it.
This musical instrument consists of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with a metal fork attached.
It is played by holding the instrument in your hand and plucking the fork with your thumb (at least), right index finger (mostly mbira), and sometimes left index finger.
Musicologists classify it as a lamellaphone, part of the plucked idiophone family of musical instruments.
This traditional plucked musical instrument in Malawi and Zimbabwe has been included in the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2020.
Although its shape is unique and the sounds it produces are varied and beautiful, mystical myths are very strongly attached to this instrument.
Mbira is believed to be a musical instrument that is commonly used as a tool to communicate with ancestral spirits.
Because it is considered very sacred, it is only in rituals, including summoning ancestral spirits. So western researchers call it "telephone to the spirits".
The purpose of this ritual of summoning the spirits of ancestors is so that the current generation can communicate and even ask for guidance.
In addition, Mbira is also often associated with the practice of witchcraft that is commonly carried out by local people. (*)
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