Garikayi Tirikoti (born 29 April 1961) is a

Zimbabwean Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Moza ...

Mbira Mbira ( ) are a family of musical instruments, traditional to the Shona people of Zimbabwe. They consist of a wooden board (often fitted with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and p ...

player, instrument maker, composer, arranger and teacher of mbira music. Tirikoti is credited as the first to develop the 'mbira orchestra' where differently pitched and differently tuned mbiras are combined in a single performance. He has also been recognized for his Shona mbira creations, better known as thumb pianos. His 2003 album ''Maidei'' was described by the ''Portland Phoenix'' as having "amazing speed and precision" with "overdubbing to build a complex mesh of mbira lines and rich choral passages of call-and-response".

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