Monday, April 16, 2007
The Transforming Power of the Kalimba

The Kalimba can transform your mood from agitated and angry to peaceful. (Of course, it can also frustrate you, if you are trying to do something specific and you keep hitting your head against the wall.)

But the kalimba can also transform the memories of old songs into a dreamy wonderful place. Here are two bits of songs that I was playing on my Dm-tuned Treble kalimba. I had no idea where they came from, and they were so familiar that I thought maybe they were things I had written and recorded long ago. Actually, they are both songs from the 60's.

Something Eric Clapton played

Something Duane Allman played

I'll send out a complimentary CD to the first person who sends me an email naming both songs that were transformed by the kalimba into these dreamy wafts of music.

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