March 4, 2017

I couldn’t believe it – a juice spill on my favorite kalimba! Fortunately, I know a good kalimba doctor! This B flat Treble kalimba is about 50 years old. Photo taken after the clean up. It was the grapefruit juice drink that did me in. It somehow splattered on my old (50 years or so!) Bb Treble, perhaps my favorite kalimba, as I was on my way to a performance. While performing, I first noticed one note on the far left not ringing clearly.  About 20 seconds later, the adjacent note went dim, and within a minute, to my distress, the whole left side suddenly stopped ringing.  (My theory: as