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Comment by One String Willie on June 19, 2011 at 1:20pm

I have used the steel from electrician's fishing tape--the flat but somewhat flexible coil of steel that electricians use to fish elecrical wires inside walls.  You can buy a 25 foot tape for fairly cheap at Home Depot, which will make a lot of kalimbas.  My recollection is I bent the tape back and forth holding it with two vice-grips to break it, and then used a bench grinder to smooth the ends.

 

Best regards, Willie

Comment by Heidi Harris on March 3, 2011 at 10:46am

a little finger piano part in this one... so i guess it's a finger piano/cbg duet!!! enjoy... Naptime in a Foxhole...

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Comment by Alan Roberts on December 5, 2010 at 4:42pm

Hey, Bluesheart. Cool. Do you know how they are tuned yet?
There's a wickedly cool program out there called KTabS (Kalimba Tablature Software) that allows you to to play lots of music in several different keys and it's FREE. The full version allows you to save, print etc and is worth the fee. As a BUILDER, it lets me find out how a kalimba will sound before I futz around with tuning it. Take a look:
http://ktabs.theirhouse.org/ktabsMain.php

With this software, you can run the free lessons Mark Holdaway has over in Kalimbamagic.com. There isn't a better deal out there, dude.

Comment by Bluesheart on December 5, 2010 at 4:24pm

Just got two Kalimbas as gifts, so I guess it will just be a matter of time before I build some too! One has 7 tines and a coconut body, the other has 17 tines, a spruce top and vibe holes.

Comment by Diane in Chicago on November 12, 2010 at 2:32am

The November Kalimba Magic Newsletter!
http://kalimbamagic.com/newsletter

Comment by Diane in Chicago on October 9, 2010 at 1:56am

New Kalimba Magic Newsletter just came out! Required reading!

http://www.kalimbamagic.com/newsletters/newsletter5.07/message.shtml

Comment by Diane in Chicago on September 10, 2010 at 1:58am

Henry, that was awesome! Well done!

Did you see the most recent Kalimba Magic newsletter? It has a pentatonic tuning pattern with redundant notes diagrammed. I changed my diatonic to that and it is much more fun to play. Like Maurice White of EWF!

http://kalimbamagic.com/newsletters/newsletter5.06/pentatonic_alto....

I did the G Major pentatonic, and I can play the E Minor by using a different home note. The doubled up notes are really cool for rapid fire repeats -- cant do that with a regularly tuned instrument!

Comment by HENRY LOWMAN on September 8, 2010 at 3:54am

YOUR OWN WORST ENEMY.mp3...OK, friends, here it is!

Comment by HENRY LOWMAN on September 3, 2010 at 4:49pm

Oooops...I just checked, and realized that I hadn't posted the earlier version. Oh well...the instrument used is my kalimba / lyre hybrid, the LYRA MBIRA.

Comment by HENRY LOWMAN on September 3, 2010 at 4:45pm

PASSAGE (REMIX) 1.mp3...Hi! Just posting a GREATLY improved remix of "Passage" from the first CRACKLEBONE cd, "The Decimation Engine" (of course, YOU"LL have to decide if it is an improvement...LOL!). ENJOY! :-)

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