April 13, 2018

A New Book, Reviewed here by Sara Edelman, is now Available at Kalimba Magic Click to Buy the Book “Making Lamellaphones”   How well do you know your kalimba?  Could you create one? Ever feel the yearning to make your own? Bart Hopkin, the guru of creative musical instrument sound, design and construction, has written and published a book dedicated to building kalimbas, both traditional and inventive.  For those not in the know, the term “lamellaphone” refers to any instrument that makes sounds by the vibrating of lamellae (plural of lamella) or plates, and includes kalimbas, mbiras and modern variants – in other words, any instrument that goes “boing” when