I can think of at least 10,000 idiots who would benefit from replacing their I Phones with a frikkin' kalimba!!
....seen kalimbas' since I was in kindergarten but never have I heard someone trance-out on one with such skill.

Ever seen a lamellophone set-up? As many variations as there are players and instrument makers....

I bet this guy never gets Nintendo Thumb.

This is MUCH more portable than the regular piano I've been keeping in my back pocket during all my travels over the last three years. I want one.

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But does it do transposition?

Yes. Notice the bar near the top of the instrument. That is the pressure point that secures the bars and determines the pitch. You can slide each individual bar up or down to change the pitch. It is a small instrument and does not have a huge range, but you can probably tune each up or down at least a whole step. It's time consuming to retune the instrument, so it wouldn't be practical to have a lot of tuning changes in a single performance. I have had to play kalimba in a few pieces. It's a fun instrument. >> ^PHJF:

But does it do transposition?

I went to a couple of different public schools when I was a kid, and they always had these.

There is one of these in the office where I see patients. I've never seen it played so *skillfully

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Yay, I actually knew this instrument! Never heard one played so brilliantly though. <3

One of my favorite band's in the world The Ex found this band in the Congo called Konono N°1. I still have a split LP Konono did with New Zealand noise rockers The Dead C. Anyway, they play those thumb things through handmade amps. It's fucking awesome and psychedelic

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Haha, the whole time I was watching this I was trying to figure out how such a small instrument could produce so much resonance then it was shown as attached to a larger board at the end.

We had 2 of these as decorations in my house while I was growing up.

I was born in S. Africa, this was one of the many trinkets of heritage my parents had gathered throughout their lives. My father would sit sometimes and play one after dinner, it was his way of revisiting his childhood and reminiscing.

Beautiful sound, the ones they had were actually made from old iron nails that were hammered flat and then attached to the main board. They still sounded very similar to this one, but they also had a very rustic and old look to them.

Amazing how much this sound is carrying me back into some of my childhood memories.

I too had one of these as a child ... Of course I was NOT as proficient as this performer though. Like a music box ... hauntingly beautiful =o)

I used to play one of these this skillfully... before... the accident.... in the lab....