March 25, 2019

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Mark Holdaway

A cool custom tuning – and live looping!

Only at Kalimba Magic This kalimba grew out of a beloved customer’s imagination and my interpretive kalimba skills This kalimba started life as a standard Hugh Tracey Alto kalimba with pickup, in standard G tuning. What is it now, and how did it get there? Let’s start with “How did this kalimba get to be this way?” This kalimba setup and tuning are the result of a series of requests from one of my repeat kalimba customers, Dajari Makena. He and I have collaborated developing great tunings. He wanted half the tines bent upward. He wanted a unique D minor tuning. He wanted something that reflected Africa. He wanted treble tines on

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Mark Holdaway

Kalimba Americana for Alto Kalimba

Play favorite folk and popular music on your Alto kalimba! Click to Purchase the Kalimba Americana Download This is the music I grew up with – the American song book! These are some of the songs that bind us together as citizens of the great American experiment. To many of us, this is some of the sweetest music in the world! This 54-page PDF download with clickable links to MP3 files has tablature for 29 different versions of 25 different songs. This book has enough easy songs to have a beginner playing right away, and it has enough complex songs to keep you working for months or longer!   This book’s

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