Kayamb Explained

The kayamb or kayamba is a flat musical instrument, a shaken idiophone, used in the African countries to play different types of music. It is called maravanne in Mauritius, or caïamb or kayanm in Reunion.^[1]

Kayambas are made of reed (or sugar cane flower stems) and its tubes filled with jequirity or canna seeds.^{[2] [3]}

They are also played in some East African countries like Kenya.^[4]

References

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Notes and References

1. Book: Peter Hawkins. The Other Hybrid Archipelago: Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean. 2007. Lexington Books. 978-0-7391-1676-0. 109–.
2. Book: Jacques K. Lee. Sega: The Mauritian Folk Dance. 1990. Nautilus. 978-0-9511296-1-6. 37.
3. Book: Viva. 1983. Viva Publishers. 58.
4. Book: Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music. 11 January 2013. Routledge. 978-1-136-09570-2. 65–.