Lesiba

Lesiba

The lesiba is a stringed-wind instrument, with a quill attached to a long string acting as the main source of vibration. The quill is blown across, creating vibration in the string, usually in short notes on a small, limited scale. The lesiba's construction is unique, in that it is the only instrument in use today that is a stringed wind instrument.cite web
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title = ProjectExplorer: Drum Café
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The lesiba is the national instrument of the Basotho [cite web
title = Drum Café
url = http://www.drumcafe.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11&Itemid=25
accessdate = 2007-12-30
] , a southern African people, now located primarily in South Africa and Lesotho. Very few people alive today play this instrument.

One player, Ntate Thabong Phosa, plays with Sipho Mabuse and can be heard in the song "Thaba Bosiu" on Mabuse's "Township Child" album. [cite web
title = Sipho Mabuse Discography
url = http://www.afromix.org/html/musique/artistes/sipho-mabuse/index.en.html
accessdate = 2007-12-30
]

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