"The metallic yet nostalgic sound of the Muritan started to fill the air like a perfume. Samwise knew how to gently touch the prongs, and tap the upper box to mark the rhythm, and even knew how to use the iron rings to add into his songs.
Before the other dogs knew it, he was gently singing on their old tongue, and it felt as sad and as soothing as it always was.

Home was so far away, but the Muritan was home as well; a home of wood and metal prongs, a home where songs about the endless dry grasslands and sand dunes reached to the edges of the world as far as their eyes could see."

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I hate myself for designing up a musical instrument, but it was fun!
This is concept art for my story (still writing on it, yes...), regarding a musical instrument described on it.

It totally sounds like a kalimba, yes.