He pulls down an African thumb piano, the only other instrument in the world that uses the same principle to make sound.

The thumb piano was also known, similar to the African mbira or sanza.

He changed to thumb piano, and sang to that, then to an African stringed instrument.

The kalimba (African thumb piano) is played on all of the band's albums.

Now the black is playing the concertina and the white the thumb piano.

The Guitaret's sound is that of a thumb piano.

He plays the flute and kalimba, a type of thumb piano.

At the end, the children will make thumb pianos with recycled wood and bobby pins.

Zimbabwe is the home of the mbira, the thumb piano.

This quality is exploited in many elementary schools who use the thumb piano as an entry-level instrument.