December 13, 2006
Carol of the Bells on Alto and Treble Kalimba

Last week, we looked at making KTabS parts for multiple kalimbas. Today we look at the Ukrainian classic Carol of the Bells. This song modulates to a different sort of mode in the middle, then back to the first part. We make this happen by retuning the bottom notes of the Treble kalimba to a different scale, and only playing on those notes in that part.

• Carol of the Bells with both Alto and Treble kalimbas
• Carol of the Bells on Alto kalimba
• Carol of the Bells on Treble kalimba

Here is the ALTO part (hope your screen is very tall!):

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Here is the TREBLE part:

See how the lower Treble tines are tuned differently? The low C is tuned to a C# and the low D is tuned to a D# to make that run sound right.