Sansula (Mbira) - sample

[KramerWolf]

Hello,

here an analog sample I did of the Sansula (R) which is a small "Lamellophon". It has only 8 distinct notes (a4, c5, e5, f5, a5, h5, c6, e6). The a5 is actually available twice which causes some beat in the sample and just as playing it in real.

The sound is very warm and rich tone and the instrument is tuned, as you can see, in such a manner that practically everything you play sounds nice.

Enclosed the link to a picuture in Wikipeda .

The sound sample of the C5.

• c5.mp3

Hope you enjoy it.

Thomas

[Hanon_CTS]

Very cool!
Thanks for sharing!

[pablomastodon]

For real...this is really sweet, and all the more so for being something unusual and out of the ordinary

and very nicely done, too!

[Keys Wizard]

Hello Thomas,

Thanks you for this nice sample !
A friend of mine has this cute little instrument.
Now, on the Stage 2, I can play it with ten fingers !!
And, of course, with more different tones !

Thanks, and greetings from Keys Wizard...

[azwel]

what the heck is a sansula

[Marlowes]

It's a "thumb piano" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thumb_piano !

[azwel]

crazyness

[Mr_-G-]

crazyness

?? Not at all. A very nice sounding ethnic instrument.