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names for 'mbira' lamellophones, by region mangambeu (22 metal or 18 raffia lamellae), mbo nggo (8 raffia lamellae), mboton, timbrh - Cameroon; sanza (9-12), sanzi (9-12) - Cameroon and Central African Republic; kalimba, lukembe - Congo; fang (6), likembe, kisansi, lukembe (10 wooden lamellae), luba (4), mbanja (8), yombe (10), zande (7) - Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaïre); tom - Ethiopia; aprempensuah - Ghana; bonduma, gbelee, kongoma - Liberia; kalimba, malimba - Malawi; danda, chisanza (22), malimba (26), tomboji, utee - Mozambique; jidiga - Niger; agidigbo (5), akpata, sologun, ubo - Nigeria; mbila dza madeza (27), mbila tshipai (11-18) - Republic of South Africa; bundoma (9, 10), kondi (9), kongoma (3), kututen (9, 11) - Sierra Leone; afosangu - Sudan; chilimba (15), ilimba (36, 55, 66-72), malimba - Tanzania; kadongo/budongo (plural) (10, 14, 15, 17), lukeme - Uganda; kalimba (14), luvale (13) - Zambia; hera (26, 34), karimba (15, 17, 19), matepe (25, 29), mbira dza vadzimu (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27), mbira dza vaNdau (29, 30, 34), munyonga (47, 52, 56), ndimba (15, 17), njari (29, 36), nyonga nyonga (15), nyunga nyunga (15) - Zimbabwe.

Her schooling included music, and she became a pianist, eventually moving to Jerusalem and recording highly unique pieces that filter the traditional Ethiopian pentatonic scale through classical technique-- in the end sounding like impressionistic jazz."