Garikayi Tirikoti

Garikayi Tirikoti

Garikayi Tirikoti is a Zimbabwean Mbira player, instrument maker, composer, arranger and teacher of mbira music. He was the first to develop the 'mbira orchestra' where differently pitched and differently tuned mbiras are combined in a single performance. Tirikoti builds instruments for the orchestras and has invented some new tunings such as Nyabango, in addition to fine tuning instruments for specific songs.