So informative and this video is so re watchable!! Give thanks!!

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Why cut the clips so short 🥲

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Thank you,Very resourceful❤

This is much too short do you have a longer version recorded anywhere?

Good information. Never heard of her. I have some videos I just posted on African American missionaries in Congo and caribbeans and African Americans who went to Ethiopia.

Beautiful sound and interesting shots will you be posting more mbira soon?

Beautiful space! Hi Mahea!

I have an interest in folk instruments of the U.S. and Europe, and how they "migrate". However, I'm only beginning to learn about the instruments of African cultures. I know that enslaved Africans brought the banjo to America. What about the kalimba family and others - were they not introduced during those early times as well? It just seems odd that a westerner introduced these instruments to the rest of the world. Thank you.

Incredible, thank you so much.

Very educational. Thank you

What an amazing story! Thank you for sharing.

Thank you kumu for teaching us of the African and Hawaiian solidarity & love. We love & appreciate you so much.

So exciting! Thank you so much for this video! Honestly I’d consider this group to be the most ethereally beautiful musical instruments 😍

This is an amazing video! You truly deserve more views and subscribers

Thank you so much for the great explanation!

Wonderful explanation! I buy a kalimba made in ocidental way but i wish research More about it and find your vídeo. Thanks for that! Greatings from Brazil. ❤

Thank you so much for sharing this beauty and invitation for deeper understanding of the whole kalimba family 🙏

Thank you so much for such a wonderful video! I'm so thankful to finally have an insight of the importance of these instruments. I first played kalimba as a child but had no idea of their cultural significance. Having bought another recently I thought it best to try and learn as much about them as I could, and you made that possible.

This is amazing queen! Where can I purchase an authentic mbira? The vibrations of this instrument truly give me added peace!

I love this 😮😮

A very sweet understanding lady ‘ great Taheshin artist ‘ Afro respect ✊

Thank you for this.

Thank you for your lovely music and explanation. I have been tgrying to decide what type of kalimba, karimba or mbira to buy for a Christmas present. I am a storyteller, and I would like to use some traditional songs to complement African stories. I hope it would not be considered inappropriate to combine mbira music with some stories. I am looking at a used mbira dzavadzimu.

Thank you for the wonderful explanation, I find it fascinating to learn about these unique instruments and what they mean to the people and cultures they originate from. Music has such a profound ability to connect us and bring people together, and the significance and purpose of the Mbira as you described perfectly illustrates this.

Amazing video. Love from Brazil 🇧🇷

thanks for spreading culture

Thank you from Salem, Oregon.

This video is much more in-depth than any source I've seen before, I love using the kalimba in my own music and I'm very grateful to hear more about it's origins and learn new things about how different a kalimba is from other similar instruments. The thing about the bottle caps was new to me, but very interesting. And please, in the future, try to not hard-pan your voice, it is a little weird to listen to a video that way.

You are amazing! ❤

Hi Mahealani, this is a lovely video. What tuning is your mbira? As in nemamusasa, gandanga, dongonda, dambatsoko etc...

❤ i love mbira a very spiritual instrument .

I can't hear the speaking voices

God bless you. I just have the kalimba and now I feel connected with african culture. I now understand it comes from Zimbabwe. Love to all african people from Bulgaria :)

Greetings! Your video just popped in, and there you are playing dangurangu the same part i just learned and practice every day😊. I see you came out from Berkeley and so did i, long ago, is where i started learning Mbira! You are a gifted and disciplined Teacher, much Respect to you! We are so sorry about Lahaina, hope you and yours are well today ❤

What beautiful piece, Mahea. Is Dangurangu the name of it? Does it have words?

very nicely done. Thank you

Me encanta.hermosas todas.gracias gracias gracias

I keep coming back to this. Really a wonderful gem of a song, much needed at this time. We are 'Ohana- Mahalo!

Brilliant video! Fantastically educational and inspirational too - it encouraged me to reach for both my Mbira Dzavadzimu & my Tracey Kalimba. I especially loved hearing the one piece played on the three different instruments and noticing just how much the progression changed from one instrument to the next. I would really like to learn how to play the Mbira Dzavadzimu better, as I've only ever really used it for jamming and sampling in my compositions. Perhaps it's time to look up a tune to learn on it! Thank you for making this video anyway - your soothing voice made it all the more enjoyable. ☺️🙏

This was a brilliantly done video. Thank you for this 🙏🏿♥️

Nice exposition on this family of instruments. One theory on it’s presence in various forms across Africa stems from the Bantu migration where people migrated from the present day Cameroon & Nigeria to Kenya/Tanzania in the east and Zimbabwe/South Africa in the south via the Congo. On the specific Mbira tunings, the main ones from ancient times are Nyamaropa , Nhemamusasa, Mavembe(Nemakonde), Matepe. Over time the tunings evolved and other new tunings are emerging e.g the Kutsanzaira tuning. It’s nigh impossible to name them all as it is itself an art and each artist expresses themselves in their own style. Generally though, certain songs play better on a certain tuning, e.g Nhemamusasa, Karigamombe, Bangidza & Mukatiende are typical Nhemamusasa tunings while Marenje plays better on Mavembe. Oh one can write a whole dissertation on the subject, not a single person can describe it all. Thanks for the lecture.

❤❤❤❤As a Shona I'm humbled with your narrative The instrument has a Strong history the Time we where created as Humans this was the music playing behind. Not those lies that it's a big bang

Lovely presentation and much needed perspective! Thank you!

this is a beautifully written video - I am looking to learn the mbira or kalimba soon and this was an amazing insight to the history and details of both the culture and instrument itself. Thank you! 🎶💜💜💜💜💜💞💞💞

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