What about other kalimbas not listed in the above table of contents? There is a sparse sprinkling of learning resources for other kalimbas. This page will help point you in the right direction to find those.

• The Hugh Tracey HotShot-11
• Catania 6-Note Pentatonic kalimba
• Goshen Mate kalimba
• Goshen Double Bridge kalimba
• 5-Note Chordal Choirs
• Bb and D Treble kalimbas
• Other kalimbas?

The Hugh Tracey HotShot-11

The Hugh Tracey HotShot-11 is a great little diatonic kalimba - a good instrument for children or beginners, and a stepping stone to the Alto Kalimba. There is a great instructional download with 52 exercises in PDF and KTabS format for $5, and Sharon Eaton of KTabS has written a hymnal for this kalimba - you can download the KTabS files for all 50 hymns at the KTabS website for free! The KTabS Reader is free, the full KTabS program that lets you create your own music or edit the other songs is $30.

There is an extensive set of Tips of the Day for the Hotshot-11 Kalimba.

The Hugh Tracey HotShot-11 kalimba in Hitzaskiar Persian tuning

Catania 6-Note Pentatonic Kalimba

Learn more about the 6-Note Pentatonic Kalimba. Perhaps the coolest thing about this kalimba is the free 13-page instructional download that includes 24 different songs - Amazing Grace, Swannee River, Sunshine on a Cloudy Day - in two different tunings. The standard tuning is in C, the alternative tuning is F, and is achieved by changing one tine by only a half step, so it is a great introduction to kalimba retunings.

The Catania 6-Note kalimba may be the best one for children to start on.

Goshen Mate Kalimba

The Goshen Mate Kalimba may be the key to saving your marriage if you are a kalimba addict and your spouse is not!

The Goshen Mate kalimba in A tuning

The Goshen Mate kalimba in Dm tuning

Goshen Double Bridge Kalimba

The Goshen Double Bridge Kalimba usually comes in F. The lower row of tines is like an 8-Note kalimba, and any educational reosurce for the 8-Note kalimba will work for it. The upper row is usually tuned a 3rd above the lower row - some notes are major 3rds, some are minor 3rds, such that all notes are in the same key. This means that 6/8 of the notes on the lower row are doubled on the upper row, or there are only 10 unique notes.

The Goshen Double Bridge kalimba

5-Note Chordal Choirs

The 5-Note Chordal Kalimba Choirs represent a unique advance in kalimba technology and music instruction. The big idea: each kalimba is tuned to a different 5-Note chord, and the three, four, or five different chords you have in your choir are designed to work together to create real music. For example, C, F, and G7 work together to create thousands of songs that follow the I-IV-V chord progression. If your three (or four, or five) students can take turns, each playing a short phrase of a meaure, they can make complex group music with only a minute of instruction. Simply amazing!

Learn more about the Chordal Kalimba Choirs! Whatever chords or keys you need, we can come through for you! If your kalimbas are used a lot, you will have to touch up on the tuning every six months or so.

The 5-Note Kalimbas are also sold separately and can be tuned to any chord, but not any voicing of the chord.

Introducing the 5-Note Chordal Kalimba Choir

The 5-Note Chordal Kalimba Choir, on the Papson

The Bb and D Treble Kalimbas

We will be getting a page up soon for the Bb and D Treble family of kalimbas. Logically, the Bb and D family of trebles are based on the layout of the Alto kalimba, and they use Alto resources - which is wonderful, because the Alto kalimba has more books, downloads, tips of the day, and other resources than any other kalimba. Read here to learn more about this.

The Bb and D Treble family of kalimbas

Other Kalimbas?

What about kalimbas not sold at Kalimba Magic? For exampe, what about the Indonesian 7-Note Kalimbas? You could use 6 or 8-note instructional materials for them if you get the tuning right. Read here for some more ideas for playing these other kalimbas.

Still Have Kalimba Questions?

If you still have questions after reading this, please send me a message to let me know what you need to find out.