Kalimba

Kalimba ni ala ya muziki toka Afrika hasa Kusini kwa Sahara. Kalimba inaundwa na ubao na mabamba membamba ya chuma, kwa hivyo ni ala ya mabamba (kwa Kiingereza: lamelophone). Kalimba zinaitwa pia likembe, ilimba, mbira huru, mbira njari, mbira nyunga nyunga, nhare, matepe, njari, sansu, zanzu, karimbao, marimba, karimba, okeme, ubo, sanza au gyilgo katika sehemu mbalimbali za Afrika. 

Marimbula toka Visiwa vya Karibi alifanya kutia na kalimba toka Afrika.

Wanamuziki mashuhuri ambao hupiga kalimba au mbira ni Thomas Mapfumo toka Zimbabwe na Kinobe toka Uganda.

 Marejeo 
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 Tracey, Andrew (1970). "The Matepe Mbira Music of Rhodesia". Journal of the African Music Society. 4 (4): 37–61. (Note: this article is the original source of the Matepe song Siti, as played by Zimbabwean Marimba band Musango.)
 Tracey, Hugh (1961). The evolution of African music and its function in the present day. Johannesburg: Institute for the Study of Man in Africa.
 Tracey, Hugh (1969). "The Mbira class of African Instruments in Rhodesia (1932)". African Music Society Journal. 4 (3): 78–95.
 Berliner, Paul (c. 1978). The Soul of Mbira: Music and Traditions of the Shona People of Zimbabwe. Berkeley: University of California Press.

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