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{{Short description|Musical Instrument}}
[[Image:Kayamb dsc01292.jpg|right|200px|thumb|A kayamba]]

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.<ref name="Hawkins2007">{{cite book|author=Peter Hawkins|title=The Other Hybrid Archipelago: Introduction to the Literatures and Cultures of the Francophone Indian Ocean|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sa8MVme3hjsC&pg=PA109|year=2007|publisher=Lexington Books|isbn=978-0-7391-1676-0|pages=109–}}</ref>

Kayambas are made of [[Phragmites|reed]] (or [[sugar cane]] flower stems) and its tubes filled with [[jequirity]] or [[canna (plant)|canna]] seeds.<ref name="Lee1990">{{cite book|author=Jacques K. Lee|title=Sega: The Mauritian Folk Dance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W-F5AAAAMAAJ|year=1990|publisher=Nautilus|isbn=978-0-9511296-1-6|page=37}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Viva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TgSyAAAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Viva Publishers|page=58}}</ref>

They are also played in some East African countries like [[Kenya]].<ref name="Music,2013">{{cite book|author=Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|title=The Concise Garland Encyclopedia of World Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ulLJUDmptFMC&pg=PA65|date=11 January 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-09570-2|pages=65–}}</ref>

==References==
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*[http://www.philbu.net/media-anthropology/wergin_worldmusic.pdf World Music: a medium for unity and difference?]

{{Commons|Kayamba|the kayamba}}

[[Category:Idiophones]]
[[Category:Mauritian musical instruments]]
[[Category:Musical instruments of Réunion]]


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