Kayamb

{{Short description|Musical Instrument}}

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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.{{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–}}

Kayambas are made of reed (or sugar cane flower stems) and its tubes filled with jequirity or canna seeds.{{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}}{{cite book|title=Viva|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TgSyAAAAIAAJ|year=1983|publisher=Viva Publishers|page=58}}

They are also played in some East African countries like Kenya.{{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–}}