January 5, 2017

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Mark Holdaway

Songs for the Chromatic Kalimba: “Carol of the Bells”

Finally a breakthrough! Chromatic tablature that is easy to read and understand! The Chromatic kalimba is a wonderful innovation based on the standard Hugh Tracey diatonic kalimbas such as the Alto and the Treble. Diatonic kalimbas play basically like the white notes on a piano. As long as a song stays in key with no accidentals, you can probably play it on an Alto or Treble kalimba. (An “accidental” is a note that is not in the key signature and requires a “flat,” “sharp,” or “natural” symbol. For the kalimba, though, this is a foreign concept, as “accidental” usually means “that note isn’t on the kalimba.”) If a song changes

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