Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Be Inventive--There's More Than One Way to Plink a Kalimba!

Monday through Wednesday of this week, we're featuring tips from the Kalimba community. This tip was written byNikki.
--Mark

Instead of thumbs or finger picks, try rubber slip-on erasers on the tip of two pencils. Holding one in each hand, play the instrument. The rubber increases the vibrations--and NO sore thumbs. I have arthritis in my thumbs, but I still wanted to learn to play a Kalimba--so had to invent this.

Also, I transpose the music into letters only, then clip this above my keys, then I just play the lines of letters. This solves trying to transpose musical notes to letters while trying to play the beat.

--Nikki

 

  

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