(Last year as I walked through the cemetery late one afternoon, a lone man was standing in an empty field, playing Amazing Grace on his bagpipes.
Yesterday as I approached the lake, I could hear an unusual sound drifting through the humid air, and as I got closer, I could see a man rocking back and forth in a lawn chair, playing an instrument that looked like a small xylophone in half a round gourd. He told me that it was a mbira (prounounced just like it's spelled), an instrument from Zimbabwe. I was hoping that he was from Zimbabwe, too, but no such luck.
If you're at all interested in African music, the website is well done.
Walked: 2.5 miles. The heat is almost intolerable and it's only about 80 degrees.
1 comment:
How interesting. I wonder how he learned to play the Mbira?
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