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Hokema B11 Kalimba – Alternative Tuning Strategies
A common theme: the more notes you have, the more musical possibilities you have. The flip side: if you are overwhelmed by the possibilities, get a simpler kalimba with fewer tines. And yet another theme: kalimbas with restricted numbers of notes and restricted possibilities can explore new spaces of possible music simply by changing the tuning. That is the main reason why I explore new tunings. Here are two fundamentally different ways of approaching kalimba tunings: Three different B11 Tunings Above Video, Left: Standard B11 Tuning (G Major) The standard tuning has just over a two octave range. If you were to have every note in the scale, that would
September 16, 2022
