Kalimba Improvisation by 8 Year Old Roxana
Channel: Roxana's Creations
Date: 2021-12-11

This is part of Roxana's homeschool education.  She's had her Kalimba roughly 1 month and is now a bit familiar with the key's.  

She's been asked to just find her way around and play what sounds nice (improvisation).  This is her 18 minutes of playing for fun and figuring out what sounds nice.

Cute and easy instrument for anyone to play!  17 Note Kalimba Unboxing.
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Although not much music was played on this Kalimba during the unboxing, it makes such a lovely sound it's quite addictive to play.  There are only 17 keys on this particular Kalimba, which is enough to play most simple songs.

Some fun facts about Kalimba's!  Taken from the website: https://www.kalimbamagic.com/

AN ANCIENT BEGINNING
By 1586 when Father Dos Santos documented the kalimba, it was already an ancient musical instrument. Gerhard Kubik, in his 1998 book Kalimba, Nsansi, Mbira: Lamellophone in Afrika, makes the case for the kalimba being invented twice in Africa: The first kalimbas were made about 3000 years ago in west Africa around present day Cameroon, created completely of plant materials such as bamboo. Then around 1300 years ago, when the Iron Age reached the Zambezi valley in southeastern Africa, someone got the bright idea to make kalimba tines out of metal.

METAL TINED KALIMBAS
The Iron Age reached southern Africa around 1300 years ago, and Africans were quite skilled at smelting and fashioning iron. It is Gerhard Kubik's hypothesis that metal-tined kalimbas started to be made in the Zambezi River Valley shortly after the people there started to use iron. During the years that European powers held African lands as colonies, Africans were discouraged from making their own metal, so kalimba tines were made out of nails, bicycle spokes, or other scrap metal pounded flat. Most modern kalimbas, starting with the Hugh Tracey kalimbas in 1954, use plated spring steel for the tines.

This is only a fraction of the history of Kalimba's!

The Kalimba is so small and simple to play it can be taken almost anywhere as long as you have a big pocket.  Hike it up to the mountains, take it to the ocean, walk down a sunny path or enchanted forest, the kalimba really does bring magic to already magical natural spaces.






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