[wdfx]

Could mount a guitar pickup under the tines of a kalimba and get much the same effects.

[kennywinker]

I think that’s actually pretty different. In this case the tines are being electronically “plucked” - in the kalimba + pickups case you have to do all the plucking

[robinsonb5]

You might an internet search for "Array mbira" entertaining.