At least for tines with identical thickness and steel properties, longer tines make lower notes and shorter tines make higher notes. Would you like to learn more?įirst, where are the high notes, and where are the low notes? If you are familiar with the kalimba, you know intuitively – the low notes are in the middle, and the high notes are on both the far left and the far right. That note arrangement makes it particularly easy to create melodies high up on the instrument, and simultaneously to produce good chords low down on the instrument that perfectly accompany that high melody. (Of course, they also owe their existence to the hundreds and thousands of people in Africa who pioneered and played the karimba, mbira and related instruments over the last 1000 years.) But most non-traditional kalimbas are copies of the Hugh Tracey kalimba’s design and note arrangement. In an article I wrote earlier this month, I said that every non-traditional kalimba in the world owes its existence to Hugh Tracey.
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