thumb piano in English

noun
1
any of various musical instruments, mainly of African origin, made from strips of metal fastened to a resonator and played by plucking with the fingers and thumbs.
The opening orchestration evokes for me the sound of the African thumb piano , although one of symphonic size.

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1. The Becalming operates as a sonic show-and-tell, with diverse instrumentation that begins with thumb piano and precipitation and expands from there