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Ok so i made 3 Kalimbas with small cigar boxes i had. I used car wiper blades for tines.They sound so different. I'm not sure if it's the sound holes but only 2 were successful really.From left to…Continue
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Not a cigar box, but what the heck...A top half of a gourd works, too.Continue
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For me best keys are mini hand saw blades right now. Metal saw blades didn't bent and braked easily.I Snapped the saw blades half and made them safe for player. I tuned each key in right note with…Continue
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Started putting together a few kalimbas cause they're so much fun to build and ended up with a stack of them. Took them to the local flea market and sold (3), so I'm on a roll now and the…Continue
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Thank you. I don't have large hands and have arthritis in base of my thumbs, so I want to find just the right size cigar box. Also, looks like that bar type pickup I mentioned below will work perfectly.
About 4 7/8" Phil.
Can't seem to find the width of the CB Gitty hardwood bridge in their kalimba kit.
Anyone?
Anyone try these bar type piezo? Seems like they would be great for kalimbas
Not sure if this has been posted before, but ... wow!
Uh, there's a lot of variables there: can you afford to waste a few millimeters of your material? what material anyway? would you care to retune the instrument to different pitches @ a later point? looks over function?
some insight (including a length chart) can be found here:
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