kayamb
Illustration — A kayamba The kayamb or kayamba is a flat musical instrument, a shaken idiophone, used in the African countries to play different types of music. It is called maravanne in Mauritius, or caïamb or kayanm in Reunion. Kayambas are made of reed (or sugar cane flower stems) and its tubes filled with jequirity or canna seeds.
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They are also played in some East African countries like Kenya.
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- 1.Peter Hawkins. The Other Hybrid Archipelago: Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean. Lexington Books. 109–. 2007. 978-0-7391-1676-0.
- 2.Jacques K. Lee. Sega: The Mauritian Folk Dance. Nautilus. 37. 1990. 978-0-9511296-1-6.
- 3.Viva Publishers. Viva. 58. 1983.
- 4.Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. Routledge. 65–. 11 January 2013. 978-1-136-09570-2.
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Naming and authority record. Those registers additionally record the form Ndouba, Kayamba Tshitshi.
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