| 释义 |
‖ mbila, n.|mˈbila|
Pl. timbila.
[Venda: see *mbira n.]
Any of various types of African xylophone with wooden keys and hollow gourd resonators.
1928G. P. Lestrade in A. M. Duggan-Cronin Bantu Tribes S. Afr. I. i. PL. xv, The mbila, the finest and most perfect of the Venda musical instruments, consists of a number of carved wooden slabs of from three to four inches wide and of various thicknesses, which are beaten with india-rubber hammers by one or two players. 1931H. A. Stayt Bavenda 320 Players of the mbila are becoming increasingly rare; formerly every chief had a player in his village. 1934P. R. Kirby Mus. Instruments Native Races S. Afr. iii. 52 The old maker of my own specimen reduced the price..because, as he said, I was a mbila player. 1964S. Marcuse Mus. Instruments 335/1 The mbila has resonator gourds with spider-web membrane covering a small hole bored in each one, a mirliton device. 1991P. Sweeney Virgin Directory World Mus. 60 Orchestras of timbila..are still prevalent, usually attached to village or provincial administrations or local political party officials. |