Tuning Your Kalimba

I demonstrate how I brish up the tuning
on an alto Hugh Tracey kalimba.

http://www.kalimbamagic.com/learnhow/learnhow_tuning.php

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Music

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• tuning
• hugh
• tracey
• alto
• kalimba
• kalimbamagic
• mark
• holdaway

[guitarbeast25]

How do you get the pegs to move? 

[kalimbamagic]

The tines are held in place by friction, you just slide them. Some kalimba designs result in tines that slide more easily than others.

[allstar550]

Mark,

Could you use a guitar tuner that you plug into on a Kalimba with a pickup so it would be digital?

[kalimbamagic]

Yes you can.

[zeroEDJE]

What type of electric tuner are you using?

[kalimbamagic]

That is a Korg chromatic tuner that is not made anymore - after 12 years of service, it finally died. Go to a guitar chop and ask for a korg chromatic tuner - $20- $25 -Mark

[MsChristianv8]

Donde consigo los flejes de metal????

[ShortenDavid]

This was helpful as I just got a Kalimba shipped to me which was brutally out of tune. Thank you.

[kalimbamagic]

Africa, the song by the band Toto:

"On 'Africa' you hear a combination of marimba with GS 1. The kalimba is all done with the GS 1; it's six tracks of GS 1 playing different rhythms. I wrote the song on CS-80, so that plays the main part of the entire tune."

So, the sound is in the song, but the actual instrument is not.

[davidtheguitarman]

isn't this instrument played in africa from toto?