July 16, 2024

Here is some useful info on retuning your kalimba. These two pages were taken from the Star-13 Exotic Tunings download.   Here is something I learned from my days as a Radio Astronomer: if you can tell there is a problem, you can usually fix it! If the kalimba sounds off, that means you can correct it and make it sound better. That knowledge doesn’t always do it, but it certainly helps to have that attitude.

Hi kalimba friends! So it looks like I get to retire. I have found some folks to purchase Kalimba Magic. This means you will still be able to get these cool little instruments that I stock, on into the future. And perhaps more important, the instructional downloads we offer will continue to work. (If you don’t have one of our downloads, they are PDF files with live links to the sound recordings. So you get to see the tablature, showing you which tines to play to accomplish a song, and you get to hear me play the song too!) And in recent years, my hard copy kalimba books have transitioned

See what the Star-13 can do in one of these exotic tunings: Ethereal Lotus Lyte Star-13. Beautifully easy, light and shiny, Bothe F Star-13 Kalimba. A Harmonic Minor tuning of the Star-13 Kalimba. Romantic and charming. Desert Star Tuning. Beautiful and fiery!   eBook Instructing for Exotic Star-13 Tunings An Instructional Download for 6 Exotic Star-13 Kalimba Tunings is now available! You will get this download for free when you purchase a Star-13 in any tuning. Of course, you will also get the Star-13 Hardcopy Booklet for the standard C tuning. There are a lot of techniques covered in that book that will be applicable to any tuning you use!