January 11, 2019

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Mark Holdaway

New Easy-to-use Download for 17-Note Kalimba in C

44 Beginner Songs Replaces Clunky 66-Song Download Click to Purchase the new “44 Beginner Songs” Download At the end of last summer, Amazon sales of inexpensive Chinese-made 17-Note kalimbas tuned to the key of C started to spike. These kalimbas were delivered to people with either a short instructional manual in Chinese, or no instructions at all. Peeved customers who bought from Amazon found me, vented their frustrations, and begged me for an English version of the short Chinese manual. Of course, I saw a great opportunity. I shot from the hip and made a “primitive” Zip file download for the 17-Note in C from an earlier version of “66 Songs” for a

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Mark Holdaway

Two Diametrically Different Kalimba Playing Approaches

Careful, precise, and planned – or Wild, Free, In-the-moment – both are important Orderly and planned…. or wild and free? How about BOTH? When I’m asked how I learned kalimba, I tell this story: while I had known what a kalimba was since the age of two, I only discovered how wonderful kalimba music could be when I was 24 and I witnessed an amazing player close up. I immediately went out and bought a kalimba, and then I wandered alone in the wilderness for 10 years, finding my own way. In that wandering, I found that my path branched in two opposing directions. On one, I tried to learn songs

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