May 9, 2019

This tiny bit of advanced music theory is very simple on the Freygish karimba CLick to Download 8-page PDF of Freygish Tablature Have you ever heard of a “minor major 7” chord? How about a “half diminished 7” chord? Yeah, at the time I had been playing kalimba as long as you probably have, I didn’t either. On the Freygish karimba, you can make the “C minor major 7” chord by simply playing the four tines on the left side of the upper row. You can play the “D half diminished 7” chord by playing the four tines on the right side of the upper row. In other words, you get

A new eBook with material for this exotic minor tuning Get the A minor Karimba Download Here is a true story. Lex, a Tucson friend of mine who has hit upon hard times, visited us at Kalimba Magic the other day. Months earlier he had given away his beloved African-tuned karimba so he could put a bad relationship which had included that karimba into the past. But he really needed to make music, and he came over to see what instrument I had that might speak to him. While we were talking, we wandered past where Sara was editing the new A minor Karimba book, with an A minor karimba next to her that she would

This eBook is for the Kwanongoma-style 15-Note Karimba in F Get the New Nyunga Nyunga Download Now! The mbira nyunga nyunga, or the 15-Note karimba in F has only been around in this form since 1960. Thousands of Rhodesian (now Zimbabwean) and South African youth were taught the traditional songs on this delightful instrument at the Kwanongoma College of African Music. And, remarkably, it could well be that more than half of the notes on this instrument (and most of the songs for it) are essentially the same as what is thought to be the original tuning of an 8-note instrument invented some 1300 years ago. And now, we are