October 4, 2017

…Instead of following my head, I had to learn to follow my heart The pentatonic kalimba is available in several different exotic tunings For 6 months, I was the sole worker at Kalimba Magic. I wrote the newsletters, wrote the books, I answered the phone and took the orders, maintained inventory, assembled,  tuned and painted kalimbas, and packed and shipped. This work was a great time for me. A Zen-like focus on my craft resulted. I surely came out of this period a better human. When I recently hired Kacy Todirita to help with the kalimba business, there was suddenly enough slack in my schedule that I decided to try and change

Welcome to Kacy Todirita – International Sales – The making of the Kalimba Magic App Kacy Todirita, bass player for the band Planet Jam, is now assisting me in tuning, packing, and shipping kalimbas all over the world I have run Kalimba Magic out of my home since 2005. The business, the packing room, the photo and sound studio, the warehouse, the rehearsal studio – these now amount to 66% of my home. Fortunately, the goals of my business align pretty well with my own personal goals: to play as much music as I can, and to share the joy of music and specifically the kalimba, with as many people

How to play them, what they mean, and what is I, V, and all that The essential chords on your Alto Kalimba that are playing now The kalimba, with its unique bi-directional note layout, makes playing scales a bit difficult because you have to zigzag your way up and down the tines, plucking first one on the right side, then one on the left, then the right, and working your way up or down the scale. It is easy zigzagging at the bottom of the scale, where the tines are close together in the center. The higher you go, the higher the chance of misplacing a finger, and zagging where