Kalimba Magic Newsletter
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February 18, 2012: Volume 7, Number 1
- In This Issue
- Riding the Economic Downturn
- Special Offers from Kalimba Magic
- The Kalimba and African History
- The Kevin Spears Style Kalimba
- Catania 12-Note: New Book and Download!
- Feb 25: Sanza Exhibit at The MIM in Phoenix
- The 1968 Hugh Tracey Instructional Manual
- The Kalimba Community
December 15, 2011: Volume 6, Number 6
- In This Issue
- How I Almost Got Punched in Fry's
- 12 Great Kalimba Gift Ideas
- Magical Music Box Storybook and CD
- New! Heavenly A Sansula Songbook
- New! JBH Four Octave Chromatic
- Interview with Mark Holdaway
- Carol of the Bells
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
- Fifties Christmas Medley on the Bb Treble
- Sarah Plays the Left-handed Catania 6-Note
November 19, 2011: Volume 6, Number 5
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: Welcome to Jordan McGary
- Anniversary Sale! 50% Off Books and Downloads
- New Instruments and Smokin' Deals
- New Music and Learning Materials
- Christmas Performances & the New Baba Marimba
- AMI Box Marimbas and Bass Bars
- 8th Street Music Unearths Vintage 1968 Kalimba
- Catania 12-Note: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
- The Chromatic Kalimba Featuring Beatles Music!
- Jenny Bienemann Releases CD Girl Friday
- Another Kalimba Doctor Success Story
- Mbira Cycle Contest Winners!!
- Ask Mark: Pickup Effects / Tuning an HT Knock-off
- Kalimba Community News
May 15, 2011: Volume 6, Number 4
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: My Job Before Kalimba Magic
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimba Magic Travel Log Spring 2011
- Kalimba in Addiction Recovery
- Sound Journaling with the Sansula
- Kalimba in Music Therapy: a Collection of Resources
- Joy of Music Presentation & Jam, Mesa, AZ, June 24
- Children's Workshop at MIM in Phoenix, AZ, July 23
- Mbira Cycle: Synchronicity at Folk Fest & Contest
- Kalimba Community News
March 20, 2011: Volume 6, Number 3
- In This Issue
- From Mark: The Secrets of My Success
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- New Premium Kalimbas!
- Interview with Jeff Willet
- Workshop/Concert in MA, March 29/April 2
- Children's Workshop in Phoenix, AZ, July 23
- Kalimba Training with Kalani in CA, July 25-29
- New Downloads for Alto and Karimba
- Contests: Winners! And a New Deadline (Again)
- Ask Mark: Resources for Orphaned Kalimbas
- Kalimba Community News
February 19, 2011: Volume 6, Number 2
- In This Issue
- From Mark: The Challenge of Respectful Debate
- February Only: Instructional Downloads 50% Off!
- New HT Student Karimba & the 10-Note Kankobela
- Kalimba Chordal Choirs in Music Education
- 5 New CDs from Leading Kalimba Players
- Tucson Festival of Books: March 12-13, 2011
- Kalimba Training in Wisconsin: March 24, 2011
- Kalimba Training in Massachusetts: March 31, 2011
- Kalimba Contests New Deadlines (AGAIN)
- Ask Mark: Tunings and Painted Tines
- Kalimba Community
January 17, 2011: Volume 6, Number 1
- In This Issue
- From Mark: This Did Not Have to Happen
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- Tour the Kalimba Magic Web Site
- Interview: Aaron Chavez
- Danny Boy: Free Tablature
- The KTabS Notebook: Tablature for Danny Boy
- Student Karimba: Book Reviews, New 9-Note
- Kalimba Music Therapy for Seniors
- New Thomas Bothe 2B/9B Kalimba w/Buzzers
- Kalimba Workshop at Hot Springs Jan. 28-30
- How to Get a Kalimba Gig: 11 Musicians Share
- Upcoming Contest Deadlines Pushed Back
December 15, 2010: Volume 5, Number 9
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: Words I Live By
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- Interview: Kevin Spears
- Carol of the Bells, Tablature
- Hava Nagila & the Middle Eastern Tuning
- Chromatic Kalimba News
- More 2B/14 Tunings
- The System of the Mbira
- Around the World in 8 Notes
- New! Kalimba Magic Transposing Wheels
- Kalimba Workshop, January 2011
- Two Upcoming Kalimba Contests
- Kalimba Community News
November 11, 2010: Volume 5, Number 8
- In This Issue
- Early Christmas Sale
- Christmas Kalimba Music
- What Happened to the Kalimba Magic Calendar?
- Interview: Peter Hokema of the Sansula
- Kalimba of the Month: The Student Karimba
- The New Student Karimba Book
- History of the Hugh Tracey Kalimba
- Running with You II: Tablature for Alto & Treble
- Instructional Download: Heavenly A Sansula
- Kalimba Workshop, January 2011
- Contest Winners and Next Contest Info
October 9, 2010: Volume 5, Number 7
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: 1,000,000 YouTube Views!
- Introducing Kalimbas Day with This 20% Off Sale!
- Kalimba Workshop, January 2011
- Kalimba of the Month: Thomas Bothe's 2B/14L
- Hugh Tracey Kalimba Birthplace Threatened
- Play the Songs You Love on the Kalimba
- The What-Do-You-Feel Kalimba Contest
- Sansula in Beautiful E Tuning
- Free Download for the Catania 6-Note
- Kalimba Community
August 21, 2010: Volume 5, Number 6
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic?
- Interview with Steve Catania of Catania Kalimbas
- Kalimba of the Month: Catania Electric Pentatonic
- Also New from Catania: The 6-Note Pentatonic
- Nowhere Man: Tablature
- The Gods Must Be Crazy: Tablature
- Turn Your Alto into a Maurice White Pentatonic
- Tunings of the Sansula, Part 2: Morocco E
- 15 Original "2B" 9-Note Tunings Available
- Kalani Drum Circle = Community, Wellness & Joy
July 17, 2010: Volume 5, Number 5
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: Playing Kalimba in Hospice
- 25% OFF SALE JULY 17-18, 2010
- Companioning a Dying Mom
- One Music Therapist's Kalimba Journey, Part 2
- Gaining Perspective on Life Using the Kalimba
- Interview with Thomas Bothe, Creator of the "2B"
- Kalimba of the Month: The Amazing "2B"
- Kalimba Americana: An Inspiring Medley
- Relating the HT Pentatonic and Alto Kalimbas
- Tunings of the Sansula, Part 1: Heavenly A
- Free Pentatonic Tablature
- Kalimba Community
June 19, 2010: Volume 5, Number 4
- In This Issue
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic?
- Maurice White's Kalimba Prelude to "Evil"
- Alto Tablature for "First Look Inside"
- Next Steps for 8-Note Kalimba Players
- The Pentatonic Kalimba Song Book
- Kalimba Americana - Alto Download
- Thomas Bothe's Amazing 2B Kalimbas
June 5, 2010: Volume 5, Number 3
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: My Kalimba Fixing Mission
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic?
- The Kalimba and Music Therapy
- One Music Therapist's Kalimba Journey
- A Review of the One-Handed Kalimba
- Bernard Kanowsky on Electric Kalimbas
- New Tunings for the Catania 12-Note Kalimba
- New Exercises for the Catania 12-Note Kalimba
- A Special Family: the Bb Treble, D Treble and Alto
- Yekermo Sew on the Gm or Am Karimba
- Kalimba Community
March 10, 2010: Volume 5, Number 2
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: The Joy That Turns the Musician's World
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic?
- Using the Kalimba in Music Therapy
- New Alternative Kalimba Tunings
- NEW: Kalimba Magic 2010 Catalog
- A New Marimba Made to Accompany the Kalimba
- New Kalimba Retailers
- Kalimba of the Month: The Goshen Mate Kalimba
- Kalimba Community
- Ask Mark: Sizes/Weights of the Alto & Treble
January 20, 2010: Volume 5, Number 1
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: Tuning Kalimbas at the UNICEF Store
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- More Premium Kalimbas
- Kalimba Community
- Kalimba of the Month: The Primal Karimba
- Ask Mark: Hugh Tracey History and Where to Find Traditional Mbira Instruction
December 18, 2009: Volume 4, Number 10
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: Powerful New Film on Race
- Playing Recorder with the Kalimba
- Two Great Ideas for Kalimba Cases
- Key Flexibility on the Kalimba
- Buy Zimbabwean Music and Save Lives
November 26, 2009: Volume 4, Number 9
- In This Issue
- Message from Mark: On Loving a Kalimba
- New Books: Advanced Christmas Carols
- New Book: Playing the Sansula
- Interview with Olusegun Williams
- AMTA Music Therapists Discover the Kalimba
- Playing Harmonica with the Kalimba
- The KTabS Notebook: Kushaura and Kutsinhira Parts
- Kalimba of the Month: Hokema Sansula
- Contest: Make Your Own Kalimba
- Kalimba Community
- Ask Mark: Two Most Common Sansula Questions
September 10, 2009: Volume 4, Number 8
- In This Issue
- On Resilience
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimbas in the Classroom
- Interview with Carl Winters
- Getting Better EQ/DI by Marc Jutras
- How to Make Your Own Kalimba
- Hugh Tracey Premium Kalimbas
- The KTabS Notebook: Traditional Mbira in KTabS
- Instrument of the Month: G Amadinda
- Ask Mark: Got Buzzy Tine Syndrome?
August 20, 2009: Volume 4, Number 7
- In This Issue
- On Racism & the African American Spirituals Book
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- New Products from Kalimba Magic
- Hugh Tracey Premium Kalimbas: Four New
- The KTabS Notebook: Printing Your Music
- Kalimba of the Month: Hugh Tracey G Chromatic
- Kalimba Community
- Playing Harmonica with the Kalimba: African Tuning
July 22, 2009: Volume 4, Number 6
- In This Issue
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- New Products from Kalimba Magic
- Hugh Tracey Premium Kalimbas: Our First Three
- The KTabS Notebook: More on Transposing
- Teaching Kids How to Play Kalimba
- Interview with Lousie Sloman-Fuller of AMI
- Kalimba of the Month: The Hugh Tracey Alto
- Kalimba Community
- Playing Harmonica with the Kalimba: Cross Harp
- Ask Mark: Answers For Your Kalimba Questions
June 16, 2009: Volume 4, Number 5
- In This Issue
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- New Products from Kalimba Magic
- The KTabS Notebook: Retuning and Transposing
- Kalimba of the Month: The Hugh Tracey Alto
- Playing Harmonica with the Kalimba
- Ask Mark: Answers For Your Kalimba Questions
May 7, 2009: Volume 4, Number 5
- In This Issue
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- New Products from Kalimba Magic
- The KTabS Notebook: Change the Look, Write a Song
- Kalimba of the Month: The Hugh Tracey Treble
- Kalimba Community
- Kalimba Photograph Contest
- Storytelling with the Kalimba
- Ask Mark: Answers For Your Kalimba Questions
April 14, 2009: Volume 4, Number 3
- In This Issue
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- New Products from Kalimba Magic
- Interview with Kevin Nathaniel
- The KTabS Notebook: Change the Look, Write a Song
- Kalimba of the Month: The Bb Treble
- Kalimba Community
- Ask Mark: Answers For Your Kalimba Questions
February 4, 2009: Volume 4, Number 2
- In This Issue
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- New Products from Kalimba Magic
- Interview with Joel Laviolette
- Music Therapy with the Kalimba
- The KTabS Notebook: Time Signatures and Savers
- Kalimba Magic Contest of the Month
- Kalimba of the Month: HT HotShot-11
- Kalimba Community
- Ask Mark: Answers For Your Kalimba Questions
January 15, 2009: Volume 4, Number 1
- In This Issue
- What's the Buzz at Kalimba Magic
- How Blowing a Deadline Turned the Lightbulb on
- New Products from Kalimba Magic
- Interview with John Roff
- The KTabS Notebook: Getting Started w/KTabS
- Ask Mark: Answers For Your Kalimba Questions
- Kalimba of the Month: Middle Eastern Tuned Treble
- Kalimba Community
December 9, 2008: Volume 3, Number 11
- In This Issue
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- New Christmas Music for Kalimba
- Traditional African Music for Karimba
- Interview with B. Michael Williams
- Kalimba of the Month: the G minor Tuned Alto
- African Metallurgy and the Birth of the Karimba
- Revisiting the Hang!
- Kalimba Community
November 27, 2008: Volume 3, Number 10
- In This Issue
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimba Magic at PASIC
- New Products: Amadinda and Uhadi
- The Hang Drum and the Kalimba
- Kalimba Community
September 24, 2008: Volume 3, Number 9
- In This Issue
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Interview with Christan Carver, Director of AMI
- African CD: Thandi
- New Products at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimba Community
August 21, 2008: Volume 3, Number 8
- In This Issue
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- The Kalimba in Music Therapy
- The Amadinda, a Traditional African Marimba
- Wonderful New Music on the 8-Note Kalimba
- Interview with Andrew Tracey, Director Emeritus of ILAM
- Kalimba Community
- Our Visit to Grahamstown Hospice in Africa
July 11, 2008: Volume 3, Number 7
- Kalimba Magic's Happy Birthday Sale
- Our Trip to Africa to Visit AMI
- Chromatic Kalimba News
- New Instruments from AMI
June 22, 2008: Volume 3, Number 6
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Mark Holdaway's Song of the Soul
- The I-Ching Kalimba
- More News of Chromatic Kalimbas
- One-sided Kalimbas
- Kalimba Community
June 1, 2008: Volume 3, Number 5
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- More News of Chromatic Kalimbas
- Interview with Eric Freeman and Kimani Lumsden
- Christian Carver's Manifesto for Making Instruments
- The Great Marimbula Playoff
- Kalimba Community
April 28, 2008: Volume 3, Number 4
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Tucson Folk Festival, May 3,4
- African CD: Ayub Ogada
- A Little Sale at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimba Community
April 15 , 2008: Volume 3, Number 3
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Interview: Kevin Spears
- Chromatic Kalimba
- Physics of the Kalimba
- Kalimba Community
March 2 , 2008: Volume 3, Number 2
- Kalimba Alert!
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Interview with the Kalimba Team at AMI
- Sansula News
- African CD: Dobet Gnahore
- Kalimba Community
January 22, 2008: Volume 3, Number 1
- Mbirathon!
- What's New at Kalimba Magic?
- Interview With Duncan Sickler
- African CD: A Day in the Life of Africa
- How Cool is the 8-Note Kalimba?
- On Accuracy and the Internet
- Kalimba Community
December 25, 2007: Volume 2, Number 9
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Playing Kalimba for Elders
- Mbira Resources
- Kalimba Community
- New Kalimba Retailers
December 1, 2007: Volume 2, Number 9
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- PASIC
- What's in a Name? Kalimba or Mbira?
- My Bargain with the Universe
- Kalimba Community
- New Kalimba Retailers
October 12, 2007: Volume 2, Number 8
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimba in Wikipedia
- Kalimba Ring Tones
- Kalimba Workshops in 2008
- A Note from Christian Carver
- A New Way of Doing the Treble, and a note from Paul Tracey
- I Ching, a Classical Piece for Kalimba
- Kalimba Community
- New Kalimba Retailers
August 1, 2007: Volume 2, Number 7
- What's New at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimba Tour 2008 Update
- Kiaat Wood - the wood of the Hugh Tracey Kalimba
- Kalimba Workshops, Spring of 2008 in Indiana and Florida
- Kalimba Programs Available in Southern Arizona
- Kalimba Community
- New Kalimba Retailers
July 1, 2007: Volume 2, Number 6
- Online Kalimba Lessons
- Kalimba Tour 2008
- Interview with Patti Broussard
- Paul Tracey on the Ed Sullivan Show
- Ndongo-tuned Kalimba
- Kalimba Workshops Available
- What Can You Do to Stop the War?
- Kalimba Community
May 30, 2007: Volume 2, Number 5
- Kalimba History
- Free Kalimba Book with your Kalimba Order
- Review of the CD Two Thumbs Up
- Upcoming Interviews
- Kalimba Services
- More Tunings: the Karimba
- Kalimba Community
- New Kalimba Retailers
April 25, 2007: Volume 2, Number 4
- Kalimba Players on the Radio
- Free CD with Kalimba Purchase
- Interview with Gregorio McCluer
- New Kalimba Magic Services
- More Kalimba Tunings: the Sansula
- Kalimba Magic heard on National Radio
- Kalimba Club at the Folk Festival
- Four New Kalimbas at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimba Community
- In Next Month's Newsletter
April 5, 2007: Volume 2, Number 3
- Kalimba Pickups
- Music Therapy and Kalimba Workshop, April 21
- Interview with Sharon Eaton of KTabS
- 15% Off at the Kalimba Shop Until April 15
- The Kalimba Magic Tuning Initiative
- Searching The Kalimba Magic Web Site
- 1000 Kalimba Players
- Four New Kalimbas at Kalimba Magic
- Kalimba Community
- In Next Month's Newsletter
March 1, 2007: Volume 2, Number 2
- Kalimba Pickups
- Kalimba Duets Book Available Now
- Interview with Master Percusionist N. Scott Robinson
- Reviews of Karimba Book and 8-Note Book
- What's New at AMI
- Workshop: Using the Kalimba in Music Therapy, April 21
- LaLa Georgeson, Percussionist and Visionary (1956-2007)
- The 2007 Kalimba Magic Catalog
- Kalimba Community
- In Next Month's Newsletter
January 20, 2007: Volume 2, Number 1
- Mbirathon!
- Kalimba Duets Book Available February 6
- Interview with Mark Holdaway, Kalimba Magic
- Men-Jaro, Dance and Music from South Africa
- The Kalimba in Music Education
- Kalimba Community
- In Next Month's Newsletter
December 15, 2006: Volume 1, Number 9
- A New CD from Mark Holdaway
- A List of Hugh Tracey and Kalimba Magic Retailers
- Interview with Laura Barrett, Kalimba Singer-Songwriter
- Review of KTabS, Kalimba Tablature Software
- Templates Available for KTabS
- An Exotic New Kalimba from Germany: the Sansula
- This Soul-Healing Instrument
November 21, 2006: Volume 1, Number 8
- Kalimba Cases Now Available
- Christmas Specials
- Interview with Tom Spicer, Kalimbass
- Hugh Tracey 8-Note Kalimba
- The Kalimba Community
- Electric Kalimbas Back in Stock
- New CD Next Month
- Karimba Exercises Available in KTabS
- Classical and American Song KPacks Now Available
- Interview with Decio Gioielli, Brazillian Kalimba Master
- Kalimba Magic Books Reviewed by PAS
- Pentatonic Kalimba Book Now Available
- The Kalimba Community
- The Holdouts
- KTabS Reader and KPacks Now Available
- ShaeZangAway Recording Now Available
- Interview with Andy Robinson, Kalimba Innovator
- Pentatonic Kalimba Book Available Soon
- Contest: Your Favorite Electric Kalimba Effect
- The Kalimba Community with CLASSIFIEDS
- The Holdouts
- Please Help Us
- Karimba Book Available
- Interview with Christian Carver, AMI Director
- Contest: Your Original Riff in Tablature
- Electric Kalimbas Back in Stock
- Tip Of The Day
- New Stuff in KTabS
- The Kalimba Community
- Kalimba Klub
- Future Newsletter Articles
- KtabS, a Cool New Computer Program for Making Kalimba Tablature
- Student Karimbas
- Contest: Your Favorite Alto or Treble Kalimba Tuning
- Back in Stock: Christmas Carol Books and Two Thumbs Up CD's
- Upcoming Recordings
- Upcoming Performances
- Kalimba Magic Celebrates 1 Year of business / Mark Holdaway Celebrates 20 years of kalimba playing
- New Kalimba Magic Website
- New! The Best Ever Book of 8-Note Kalimba Music
- New! The Hugh Tracey Box Pentatonic Kalimba
- New! Wood Kalimba Cases, made by Craftsman Frank Gacon
- The Amazing Electric Kalimba
- A New and Magical Band Performing June 23rd
- More Upcoming Recordings: Rule of Thumb
- Upcoming Performances
- All Levels Kalimba Klub
If you have any questions, or if you have suggestions for future newsletter topics or Tip of the Day ideas, please share them with me! -- Mark