December 10, 2018

Learn the 10-Note and prepare for the 17-Note – You can sample one lesson from each of our four 10-Note downloads Do you have your 10-Note Heart Kalimba Yet? I am really taken with the 10-Note kalimba. I think it is one of the best choices you can make for most kids ages 8-14. But I also think there are a lot of adults who get a 17-Note kalimba and then get frustrated with it, because it is more complicated than they are ready for. To try to woo you toward the 10-Note kalimba, I am sharing a lesson from each of my four instructional downloads: “Fun and Games on

This is so different from the Sansula’s melancholy standard A minor tuning That’s me, Mark, on guitar and friend Andrea Eckhardt playing a Sansula Renaissance in G Major Pentatonic tuning “Oh – it’s so small… it only has nine notes – that’s not much.” I must admit, hearing comments like that always leave me a bit disconcerted. Yes, she was a piano player who was accustomed to having scores of notes at her fingertips. I could have explained to her: “This is a magical instrument that just creates its own music, just the way it is. These 9 notes have a special story to tell.” But the words did not