Wildwood Flower

This is the classic Carter Family song, performed on the Hugh Tracey kalimba, modified to be a Bb Treble. I call this
style kalimba americana.

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• kalimba
• music
• Hugh
• Tracey
• Mark
• Holdaway
• beautiful
• magic

[igotsmoshedify]

are kalimbas known as thumb pianos?

[kalimbamagic]

Yes!

[ThePower2112]

i got a 9 note kalimba and it doesnt have the hole in the center, how do i learn how to play it?

[kalimbamagic]

I have written over 25 different books and instructional downloads for different types of kalimbas. There is one for the Sansula, a 9-note kalimba, but I suspect you have a different type. As each type of kalimba has different notes, each one needs a different book - which keeps me busy!

One idea: if 8 of your 9 notes are tuned to "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do" in a right-left-right-left alternating pattern you can use the 8-Note materials.

Good luck! -Mark

[drumbassguitar]

DUDE this sounds just like the beginning of mario, yoshi's island for SNES "when mario is a baby and you are playing as Yoshi"

awesome

[DeadRabbitsWompy]

so thats how a gameboy looked back in the days :)

nice tune btw!

[4life20music]

I just bought a hugh tracy alto and I am in love ! I play muti instruments my whole life for real; but playing the kalimaba, sansula.. and being able to retune it to all world scales blows my mind! This is one of the coolest instruments in this world it is the past and the future vibe! IMO

Thank you so much!

[DJBigz1988]

my mom found one of these at a garage sale yesterday, first thing i did was retune it to C major and i got curious to what the name was since there was nothing on it, and i landed here :D. this little thing has got some huge music potential.

[theemo8]

i have a kalimba, with 5 strings and a hole but it is under those strings. is it a real kalima? its made of old African material, no idea what it is, its like wood or cardboard very weird...

[BludRedDragon]

@kalimbamagic Oh yeah, but i was talking basics, like the fact that they both have keys in a line.

How much did this one cost?

[GuyAroundTheCornerHB]

OH my aunt has one I WANNA HAVE IT NOW

[kalimbamagic]

No, the layout is very different from xylophone, in that the notes alternate from Left to Right - so three adjacent notes on one side will make a triad, and octaves are on opposite sides of the instrument.

[BludRedDragon]

@drumbassguitar First thing that came to mind. a kalimba is pretty much the layout of a zylophone/marimba but the sound of a music box/glockenspiel.

[kalimbamagic]

It is a sound hole, like on a guitar.

BUT - Watch the video "First Look Inside" and see how I wave my thumb around over the hole, and see what it does to the sound - "wah wah!"