June 4, 2021

Last newsletter, we had a contest to see who could figure out the song that was in the new tablature “logo” image. OK – here is the video: And here is the tablature for the song: On the green kalimba in the video, I have tuned my high C to C#. Why? Because the song goes that way. I could have played this on a chromatic kalimba, but I really liked having Thing hand me the second kalimba. Congratulations to the first three people who told me what the song was: 1: Mary Bragg 2: Lisa Cuthbert 3: Holly Soptick Thank you for playing! But where are the guys? About

A number of people have recently asked me for tablature for Hava Nagila. Like everything I do… it is complicated. For starters, here is a video of a pretty hot performance on a Middle Eastern-tuned Hugh Tracey Treble Kalimba. This will surely be set up differently than your kalimba, so enjoy listening, but you probably won’t be playing along with this one: Hava Nagila on a Hugh Tracey Treble Kalimba in Middle Eastern Tuning. I have buzzers on this kalimba, and it is being played in a gourd deze, which amplifies and buzzifies the sound. That black thing is a guitar strap that goes over my neck to support the