do you have ones like this on the website for purchasing? i'm was interested in making my own but i really dint think i would be able to get it this well tuned!
Search for Sansula KalimbaMagic. I no longer carry this EXACT model because the paper head breaks. I have two similar models, with synthetic drum skin material (Sansula Renaissance) and with goat skin head (Deluxe Sansula).
Actually, tuning it is not a big problem. BUT, my son is in the shop working on coming up with our own kalimba designs - he is on prototype # 10, and there are plenty of other things that can go wrong.
Will these tuning sheet charts for all tunings come with my purchase? If not, is there somewhere on the website I can look at them to figure it out when I receive my instrument? :)
Yes. The standard tunings come with sheets like this. The common tunings I provide come with similar computer-generated sheets that I make. And the really rare tunings... I just write on a piece of paper.
I offer a Kalimba Doctor service, and I've seen dozens of old (60s and 70s) kalimbas that are totally out of tune, and I realize their owners just had no clue how to tune them, so making sure the owners know what notes to tune to is very important.
Thank you - this is BEAUTIFUL E TUNING -- But if you want HEAVEN - search for the HEAVENLY A SANSULA tuning, invented by Rick Tarquinio of YouTube channel ReturnToSound.
Referring to my earlier posting: Changed the tuning of my Sansula into "Beautiful E" today. I think this suites the hot summer weather much more than A minor :-) Had some trouble with G#, but a little hammer helped. I feel really happy with the new tuning since it meets my summer mood much more! Thanks again for your inspiring videos.
Just bought a Sansula myself and found your video very intersting. If I get tired of A flat, than your tuning will sure be an alternative. I also enjoyed your playing very much.
That is a theory that ethnomusicologists have been discussing for many years. In Africa, many marimbas are played with a person on both sides of the instrument, and they would strike the ends of the bars rather than the middle. To one person, notes increase from left to right. To the other person, notes increase from right to left. These two people play interlocking parts.
On kalimba, right thumb plays 1st person's part, left thumb plays 2nd persons part - stuck inside ONE BRAIN! -Mark
I just got my first 8 note kalimba as my early birthday present! I came up with a couple of neat tricks to enhance the sound of my nooby kalimba. Back on track then: From this vid, I know that you can tune a 9 note Sansula Kalimba in E tuning. But is it possible to tune a 8 note kalimba to E tuning as well? Because based on the PDF I read in kalimba magic, all of the tunings seem to have 1 extra note that is the same next to the other tine. I don't think it'll make a difference. Does it?
I believe that A and E tuning is so much better than the standard one. Well, I wish I could get a sansula. But they are tremendously expensive! I guess, I just have to sell off my video games. Well, at least my synth piano is like a replacement of a Right-Handed 8 thumb piano (I'm playing it like a Kalimba, because I'm using my thumbs.) till I get enough money to buy the wonderful Sansula. =)
There are at least two good kalimba makers in Brazil - Otavio Jr is one, I don't know the name of the other. I do ship from the US to Brazil. I don't know if you can get a Sansula in Brazil, but I can send you one. Look for "KalimbaMagic" on the internet. -Mark
Sorry, I don't make any of them - I just learn and teach how to use them! I often recommend the 15-Note ALTO kalimba for starters with a wide range of musical ability - though the SANSULA is good for making beautiful enchanting melodies. The 8-Note kalimbas are good if you don't have a lot of confidence with music. -M
Dear Swarflee - you've made my day! I had to go back and watch and listen - yes, I suppose it is beautiful. I hope you are able to fast forward to the end, thats a long video to sit all the way through for many times!
Do you own a Sansula? Watching this, I realized that I could write this piece out in tablature - ie, in a form that you could readily learn the music from.
I don't have a sansula, but I am getting one soon. (hopefully) I have a Hugh Tracey Alto and I am trying to choose the next kalimba to add to my collection. I can't decide which to get: a Hugh Tracey Karimba or a Hokema Sansula. They are very different instruments. I hope to eventually get both though. But for now...
Anyway, thanks for the offer on the tablature, but I don't know whether I'll be getting a sansula in two weeks or two years, so I might not be able to make use of it.
The Sansula is actually based on the Karimba - in fact, if you get the karimba tuned to A minor, they sound really good together. The Sansula is really a New Age type instrument, and while I've seen people do all sorts of great things on the karimba (see SaReGaMa The Artist, for example), that instrument is firmly rooted in African tradition, and is a great instrument for making African sounds.
The Sansula is very similar in its note layout to the African Karimba, which Andrew Tracey asserts is the grandmother of the Mbira. SO, even though this is perhaps the most modern of "thumb pianos", it owes a great debt to the most ancient of them as well.
I have so many words, I don't think I could ever say "all i can say..." -Mark
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well psh, your heavnen is yours, i want God's heaven :3 and there are far more instruments in heaven than you think, what do you think of that :3 and we dont turn into angels, hopefully you didnt think so. ah ha ha !
Mark, the alternate E tuning for Sansula is truly beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us. Come over some time and get acquainted with my Array Mbira. I think is the only one in Arizona. Regards,
The Hugh Tracey kalimbas retune quickly enough that you really can go back and forth. The Sansula takes me about 10 minutes of real work to retune, so I go back and forth rarely (once every month) - two Sansulas is a reasonable option.
do you have ones like this on the website for purchasing? i'm was interested in making my own but i really dint think i would be able to get it this well tuned!
pax918273 2 weeks ago
Search for Sansula KalimbaMagic. I no longer carry this EXACT model because the paper head breaks. I have two similar models, with synthetic drum skin material (Sansula Renaissance) and with goat skin head (Deluxe Sansula).
Actually, tuning it is not a big problem. BUT, my son is in the shop working on coming up with our own kalimba designs - he is on prototype # 10, and there are plenty of other things that can go wrong.
kalimbamagic 2 weeks ago
This is the YouTube Video that started the whole SANSULA TUNING movement!
Very soon, I will have a book dedicated to playing just in the Beautiful E Tuning. -Mark Holdaway
kalimbamagic 1 month ago
Will these tuning sheet charts for all tunings come with my purchase? If not, is there somewhere on the website I can look at them to figure it out when I receive my instrument? :)
xxIreneCaffeine 1 year ago
Irene,
Yes. The standard tunings come with sheets like this. The common tunings I provide come with similar computer-generated sheets that I make. And the really rare tunings... I just write on a piece of paper.
I offer a Kalimba Doctor service, and I've seen dozens of old (60s and 70s) kalimbas that are totally out of tune, and I realize their owners just had no clue how to tune them, so making sure the owners know what notes to tune to is very important.
kalimbamagic 1 year ago
@kalimbamagic Thank you so much. :) Can't wait to see what you'll put up next!
xxIreneCaffeine 1 year ago
thanks my man! gonna retune mine like this today :) good soundtrack for our philosopher's stone session this evening :)))
dumpstyle 1 year ago
where can i get one!!!
kaylashalaylaaaaa 1 year ago
At kalimbamagic on the web. Using the coupon code Sansula15 can get you 15% off. -Mark
kalimbamagic 1 year ago
5:50 Be careful not to impel your hand into the tines - that would be a nasty wound.
Thanks for the warning! You are super cute :)
bennydahan 1 year ago
thanks a lot for this tuning.
sounds as heaven open the gates
greetz from germany
Miesn 1 year ago
Thank you - this is BEAUTIFUL E TUNING -- But if you want HEAVEN - search for the HEAVENLY A SANSULA tuning, invented by Rick Tarquinio of YouTube channel ReturnToSound.
kalimbamagic 1 year ago
Referring to my earlier posting: Changed the tuning of my Sansula into "Beautiful E" today. I think this suites the hot summer weather much more than A minor :-) Had some trouble with G#, but a little hammer helped. I feel really happy with the new tuning since it meets my summer mood much more! Thanks again for your inspiring videos.
jennynettles 1 year ago
Just bought a Sansula myself and found your video very intersting. If I get tired of A flat, than your tuning will sure be an alternative. I also enjoyed your playing very much.
jennynettles 1 year ago
Anyone notice that Kalimba islike a mini portable marimba? :]
uchihaclan95 1 year ago
That is a theory that ethnomusicologists have been discussing for many years. In Africa, many marimbas are played with a person on both sides of the instrument, and they would strike the ends of the bars rather than the middle. To one person, notes increase from left to right. To the other person, notes increase from right to left. These two people play interlocking parts.
On kalimba, right thumb plays 1st person's part, left thumb plays 2nd persons part - stuck inside ONE BRAIN! -Mark
kalimbamagic 1 year ago
"Hi. I'm Mark Holdaway, The Creepy Guy........Just close your eyes and let it happen."
shannyfanny46 1 year ago
Please send me your catalog of your Sansulas, I've been encourage to play for the world, I need to have your creations in my arsenal
Jamarisdrum 1 year ago
I just got my first 8 note kalimba as my early birthday present! I came up with a couple of neat tricks to enhance the sound of my nooby kalimba. Back on track then: From this vid, I know that you can tune a 9 note Sansula Kalimba in E tuning. But is it possible to tune a 8 note kalimba to E tuning as well? Because based on the PDF I read in kalimba magic, all of the tunings seem to have 1 extra note that is the same next to the other tine. I don't think it'll make a difference. Does it?
MAT0R0 1 year ago
I believe that A and E tuning is so much better than the standard one. Well, I wish I could get a sansula. But they are tremendously expensive! I guess, I just have to sell off my video games. Well, at least my synth piano is like a replacement of a Right-Handed 8 thumb piano (I'm playing it like a Kalimba, because I'm using my thumbs.) till I get enough money to buy the wonderful Sansula. =)
MAT0R0 1 year ago
Very beautiful tuning, very new age tunes come out with this!
denveredintorni 2 years ago
dose anyone know where to get these instruments re-skinned?
leonio10 2 years ago
If you can get them to Germany, they will redo it there.
kalimbamagic 2 years ago
you can play my favorite song Saltwater Room on the sansula, when its standard tuned, I WANT IT! lol
bigbookofnothing 2 years ago
man i know this instrument an i luv this
where i can buy a kalimba or a sansula?!
im on Brazil, i think is not hard right?!!
please tell me!!
vinyvalentine 2 years ago
There are at least two good kalimba makers in Brazil - Otavio Jr is one, I don't know the name of the other. I do ship from the US to Brazil. I don't know if you can get a Sansula in Brazil, but I can send you one. Look for "KalimbaMagic" on the internet. -Mark
kalimbamagic 2 years ago
Thanks Mark, i see ur many types of kalimbas u make, wich is the basic kalimba to start play?!
one M15 is good?!
thanks again from brazil
hugs 'Viny
vinyvalentine 2 years ago
Sorry, I don't make any of them - I just learn and teach how to use them! I often recommend the 15-Note ALTO kalimba for starters with a wide range of musical ability - though the SANSULA is good for making beautiful enchanting melodies. The 8-Note kalimbas are good if you don't have a lot of confidence with music. -M
kalimbamagic 2 years ago
Your improvisation at the end of the video is amazing. I watch this video over and over again just for the improvisation at the end.
Swarflee 3 years ago
Dear Swarflee - you've made my day! I had to go back and watch and listen - yes, I suppose it is beautiful. I hope you are able to fast forward to the end, thats a long video to sit all the way through for many times!
Do you own a Sansula? Watching this, I realized that I could write this piece out in tablature - ie, in a form that you could readily learn the music from.
Take care -Mark
kalimbamagic 3 years ago
I don't have a sansula, but I am getting one soon. (hopefully) I have a Hugh Tracey Alto and I am trying to choose the next kalimba to add to my collection. I can't decide which to get: a Hugh Tracey Karimba or a Hokema Sansula. They are very different instruments. I hope to eventually get both though. But for now...
Anyway, thanks for the offer on the tablature, but I don't know whether I'll be getting a sansula in two weeks or two years, so I might not be able to make use of it.
Swarflee 3 years ago
The Sansula is actually based on the Karimba - in fact, if you get the karimba tuned to A minor, they sound really good together. The Sansula is really a New Age type instrument, and while I've seen people do all sorts of great things on the karimba (see SaReGaMa The Artist, for example), that instrument is firmly rooted in African tradition, and is a great instrument for making African sounds.
Best of luck! -Mark
kalimbamagic 3 years ago
BRAVISIMO !!!
Me encantao tu explicacion, gracias por esta escala tan armonica !!
houbero 3 years ago
all i can say is type in "mbira of zimbabwe"
ylju 3 years ago
The Sansula is very similar in its note layout to the African Karimba, which Andrew Tracey asserts is the grandmother of the Mbira. SO, even though this is perhaps the most modern of "thumb pianos", it owes a great debt to the most ancient of them as well.
I have so many words, I don't think I could ever say "all i can say..." -Mark
kalimbamagic 3 years ago
were can you buy a kalimba/?????
trend2kill 3 years ago
I make my living selling them. Look for KalimbaMagic on the web. -Mark
kalimbamagic 3 years ago
thank you. i did not realize it can be tuned to this angelic tuning
FieldsofYaru 3 years ago
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well psh, your heavnen is yours, i want God's heaven :3 and there are far more instruments in heaven than you think, what do you think of that :3 and we dont turn into angels, hopefully you didnt think so. ah ha ha !
ageshero 3 years ago
music therapy. thanks man.
roscoegino 3 years ago
You are great, my friend! I have got a sansula and your video is a MUST. Thank you from Italy.
ilovepercussion 4 years ago
thanks for info here. btw, this takes alot longer than ten minutes for me. about an hour.
crpederson 4 years ago
Mark, the alternate E tuning for Sansula is truly beautiful. Thanks for sharing it with us. Come over some time and get acquainted with my Array Mbira. I think is the only one in Arizona. Regards,
Saggio
fluteCarrier 4 years ago
Gosh Mark, that's lovely. I may have to buy a second sansula to keep in that tuning. : )
Sardanza 4 years ago
Thank you!
The Hugh Tracey kalimbas retune quickly enough that you really can go back and forth. The Sansula takes me about 10 minutes of real work to retune, so I go back and forth rarely (once every month) - two Sansulas is a reasonable option.
kalimbamagic 4 years ago
'in my heaven the angels play sansulas rather than harps'? he he...like it nice
Beuatiful sounds, and good stuff you're doing with the vids (and website)
I'm hoping santa's going to bring me a sansula this year!
nightsin2dreams 4 years ago
Educational and Beautiful!!!!
zmgriffith 4 years ago