The mbira, also known as mbila sansa, kilembe, likembe, timbrh, or thumb piano, is an exclusively African plucked idiophone, or more accurately, a lamellaphone (an instrument whose sounding elements are resonant solids that belong to the body of the instrument itself).
- For more than a thousand years, the Shona people, who make up the majority of Zimbabwe's and Mozambique's population, have performed the mystical music known as mbira (the name of the instrument and the tune).
- A wooden or gourd resonator and a variety of tuned metal or wooden strips that vibrate when they are plucked make up the African musical instrument known as an mbi.
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