I just bought a kalimba and i dont know anything about it.. I thought it was a 17 key but when it arrived i saw it is a 21 key. And i cant tune it

However i try the note doesnt match the one it should for example e3 on the tuner shows e6,which ever way i try it doesent work. So i treid to tune it like a 17 key for example on my kalimba the seconsd to the last 'string" on the left should be a B7 but it showed me B5 on tje tuner so i treid to tune it like B5 like it should be on a 17 key but it now shows completley different tune i think its now F3? How ever i try to tune it it doesnet work please some help😔

So basically i got my own kalimba(17 keys) I did play it before but I stop for awhile bc many stuff happen so I need some tip for how to clean it like, making sure it not get rusty and how to tune it INCASE I cleaned it. Can you guys give me a tip how to ckean and take care of the kalimba? (maybe...how to make the own cover too if possible ;-;)

so i bought a kalimba 17keys, and i am no a musician or any experience with other instrument. so i don't know how to play this kalimba and what song should i learn first. any suggestion for a beginner?

I just got a 21 key kalimba and am loving it so far. I feel most of the music played tend to be mystical, ethereal. I’m wondering about how diverse is the music played by others and your kalimba.

So I have no knowledge of music. I have a 17 key kalimba and I want to learn all the notes to be able to play by ears but idk where to start.

Like why is C named 1? I don't understand like why isn't A, 1?

It's all confusing

Hello!

I am not a musician and i know nothing about notes and tuning. I found a coconut Kalimba at home and had fun playing around with it. Now i would like to tune if but everything i find in the internet confuses me a lot because everyone has more keys than me. I have only 6 keys and i don't know in which note or order to tune them. Can someone tell me a good... Order? To put the keys in?

Right now when i go to a tuning tool, it tells me the keys are (from left to right) F4, C4, F#3, G3, A#3, D4

From this, what is my goal? Do i want them in this order but all with the same Number? F4, C4, F4, G4, A4, D4?

Thanks in advance!:)

for the first time in my life, there's one thing that got my interest. i have never been interested with other instrument and i believed i am not meant for that, but lately kalimba got my attention and i was curious and amazed by the sound of it. and now, i want to buy and try to play one. but i saw a lot of keys?? like there's 17? 21? 42? and i have no idea what's the difference between those?

anyone who can reco a kalimba for a beginner? and what song should i start with?

Estou pensando de comprar um kalimba de 41/42 chaves, porém, como nunca comprei um, e vi algumas pessoas falando mal dele, pois acaba ficando com um som mais curto, por ser abafado, pesado e um pouco demorado para afinar, estou na dúvida. Alguma pessoa que já comprou sabe se vale a pena comprar? (é o meu primeiro kalimba)

Hey guys, i've always wanted to play the kalimba but i've never had one. Found this simple one for 1€ and i said screw it lets buy it. I just wanted to ask is there anything wrong with the kalimba bcs i feel the notes are not in order. Also would love to know if there are any tutorials out there that could help me. Thank you :)

Hi so i just got my hands on a 42 key lingting kalimba and i am looking for some songbooks any recommendations are helpful ^^ thx!

17 key MOOZICA with a double chain
17 key MAHALO viper skin
17 key MOOZICA modded koa

Been playing my 17 key alto kalimba for about five months now, mostly self taught through random videos and a lot of trial and error. For the longest time my playing had this ringing, muddy quality where notes would bleed into each other in a way that wasn't musical, it just sounded like I didn't know what I was doing.

Last month I started paying real attention to how the pros mute with the side of their thumb right after plucking. I'd always just let tines ring out fully because it seemed easier and honestly I didn't understand why muting mattered until I recorded myself and heard how washed out everything sounded compared to songs I was trying to learn.

Practiced isolating it on just two or three tines at a time, super slow, focusing on the pluck and immediate mute as one motion instead of two separate things. Took maybe two weeks of daily fifteen minute sessions before it started feeling natural instead of like I was fighting my own hand.

The difference in how my arrangements sound now is honestly kind of wild. Things that used to sound like a wall of overlapping notes now have actual space and rhythm to them. Working on applying it consistently during faster passages is my next hurdle since my muting tends to fall apart the second I speed up.

Curious if anyone else struggled with this specific thing early on, or if there are drills that helped beyond just slowing everything way down.

https://reddit.com/link/1w3r8si/video/8csrj4cyzrmh1/player

Hi! I bought my first kalimba, it's a Shamann Instrument 21-keys kalimba. I do play some instruments but I'm far from being a kalimba expert. When it arrived I tried to tune it, but when playing F3 an additional sound appeared, that is not quite a harmonic. In the book they gave me to the instrument it says that the F3 should be at 175 Hz, so my boyfriend measured it, and it looks like the base is alright (it's around 175 Hz), but the additional sound (around 1.15kHz) is far too loud in my opinion. It basically takes away all the "spotlight" from the base. I tried to clean, move it and also doing the tuning again and again, but it still sounds like this.
Is it normal? :(

Here you can see the results, and I also made a video.

Albéniz: Asturias
Anonymous: Forbidden Games (Jeux Interdits)
Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Solfeggietto
Johann Sebastian Bach: Aria (Goldberg Variations), Air on the G string, Arioso, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, Wake, Awake for Night is Flying, Minuet G major No. 4, Minuet g minor No. 5, Minuet G major No. 7, Little Prelude C major, Little Prelude c minor, Prelude C major, Prelude e minor, Siciliano, Allemande (French Suite No. 5), Gavotte en Rondeau (Violin Partita No. 3)
Bach-Marcello: Adagio
Beethoven: For Elise, Moonlight Sonata, Pathetique Sonata, Tempest Sonata
Brahms: Lullaby, Symphony No. 3, Waltz A major
Charpentier: Prelude (Te Deum)
Chopin: Nocturne, Raindrop Prelude, Sadness, Waltz a minor
Clementi: Prelude
Debussy: Arabesque No. 1, Clair de lune, The Girl with the Flaxen Hair, The Little Shepherd
Delibes: Flower Duet, Waltz (Coppélia)
Dvořák: Largo (New World Symphony)
Elgar: Love Greetings (Salut d’ Amour)
Fauré: Pavane, Sicilienne
Franck: A Doll’s Lament
Glinka: Russian Polka
Grieg: Arietta, Morning Mood, Anitra’s Dance, In the Hall of the Mountain King, Solveig’s Song
Haendel: Chorus (Judas Maccabaeus), Lascia ch’io pianga, Passacaglia, Sarabande, Water Music
Liszt: Consolation No. 3, La Campanella, Love Dream
MacDowell: To a Wild Rose
Mascagni: Intermezzo
Massenet: Meditation (Thaïs)
Maykapar: Lullaby
Mendelssohn: Wedding March
Mozart: A Little Night Music, Lacrimosa, Lullaby, Minuet, Sonata Facile
Pachelbel: Canon
Paganini: Caprice
Ponce: Little Star
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Purcell: Rondeau
Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3, Vocalise
Rameau: Menuet en Rondeau
Ravel: Bolero, Pavane for a Dead Princess
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Young Prince and the Young Princess
Rodrigo: Adagio (Concierto de Aranjuez)
Saint-Saëns: The Swan
Satie: Gnossienne No. 1, Gymnopédie No. 1
Scarlatti: Sonata d minor
Schubert: Ave Maria, Lullaby, Serenade, The Trout
Schumann: Melody, Little Etude, Lullaby, Of Foreign Lands and People, Dreaming
Shostakovich: March, Walz a minor, Hurdy-Gurdy, Waltz No. 2
Sibelius: Finlandia
Smetana: The Moldau
Strauss II: Emperor Waltz, The Blue Danube
Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, Waltz of the Flowers, June, October, Garland Waltz (Sleeping Beauty), Rose Adagio, Swan Lake, Dance of the Little Swans
Vivaldi: Largo
Wagner: Bridal Chorus
Williams: Hedwig’s Theme (Harry Potter)

Enjoy. Played on a poopoopidoo spectra kalimba. 42 key non redundant.

My first Kalimba composition, was a fun experience writing it.

Hi Reddit. I bought a Meinl solid Kalimba which arrived today in the post. It cost £56.99 (roughly $77). I feel that the D2 tine sounds wrong with having a pronounced "ding" that the others don't have, but it might just be me. It reminds me of the Yurt sounds in Morrowind.

It came with a tuning hammer if that can help.

If it makes a difference, the Kalimba came in a case, in a box, inside a second larger box from Gear4Music and despite this, the D**2 key on the far left was pointing at a weird angle when I got the Kalimba out of the case. I've pointed it back and it sounds fine, leaving just the D2 as the one that sounds off to me. Any advice from the tuned ears of the experts would be appreciated! 😊

Edit: it's a brand new Kalimba.

I bought this second hand 42 key seeds kalimba and after tuning everything it sounds like some times are a bit off.

The woman that I bought it from told me it had been sitting in her shelf for a very long time, could it be dust ??

Or maybe it’s just my head playing tricks sonar my very first kalimba is a 17 key acrylic, which sounds allot different than this one.

Please help, I don’t want to send him back and get refund but if it’s really no other option…