Kalimba Song Book for Beginners: Play by Letter: 40+ easy to play songs for beginners. How to Tune Your Kalimba and Learn Tablature Reading. by KINGSTON RUPERT J

Author:KINGSTON, RUPERT J. [KINGSTON, RUPERT J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

KARIMBAS

In identifying a kalimba or mbira, "Kalimba" and "mbira" are also used interchangeably. When learning about one of these African instruments, it can be pretty confusing and even more confusing when you try to buy one. We thought we would talk a bit about why a kalimba isn't a mbira that ensures that you get the best shopping experience for your new X8 Drums kalimba. The kalimba looks very similar to the mbira, and the two instruments consist of a wooden soundboard with steel keys that the players depress and release with their fingers to produce a calm, bell-like sound.

The kalimba and the mbira are not the same tools, despite these similarities. Even a mbira tuned to a kalimba is not the same as a kalimba, only in keeping with it. Currently, the kalimba is a smaller, modern variant of the mbira, which in Zimbabwe dates back more than 1,000 years. In the 1960s, Hugh Tracey invented the kalimba. Although living in what is now Zimbabwe, Tracey liked the sound of the mbiras he heard but decided to create an adaptation better suited to Western music.

While the kalimba and the mbira have a few minor variations, including a double row of keys on the mbira and a single row of keys on the kalimba, their scales are the main difference between the two instruments. The kalimba uses the diatonic scale of seven notes used in conventional Western music, while the mbira's non-western scale has the same notes, but not in the same order. There might also be some incomplete notes. Any two-note combination produces a diatonic interval due to the diatonic scale of the kalimba, making it simple to create harmonies.

A different percussive function is also featured in the kalimba. The standard kalimba features two holes at the bottom of the soundboard in place of the buzzers of the mbira. You can get a 'wa-wa' effect if you wave your fingers in and out of the holes. The kalimbas at X8 Drums, however, like kalimbas used by many musicians in Africa, feature buzzers to generate the mbira's distinctive buzzing effect.

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