📦 Bolf Kalimba Unboxing & Sound Test 

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You're welcome! @@Laelette63893

Merci beaucoup!....et cette kalimba a un son magnifique! 👋💝

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching 😄

@@SamSalvador thank you for sharing! 🫶🏾🌻

When you're starting out, it really helps writing down the tabs on a notebook because you get to familiarize yourself with the song and the kalimba at the same time 😄

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Makes me feel like having an afternoon nap

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Good morning David! Hope you have a great week! This is your sign to start with your painting 🖌

@@SamSalvador Hi Sam, Yes indeed, It does give me inspiration to take up Chinese Brush painting again but I got too many ideas in on mind to paint on canvas. Oils painting is my first love, photography is my second love, Chinese brush painting is my third love and finally poetry is my last love. I started writing poetry when mom passed away. This is my first poem I ever wrote. “Shooting Star” 💫 “Mother are like shooting star, Love them, respect them, and cherish them because once they pass through your solar system they are gone.” Went and bought flowers for mom after Chinese New Year. Thanks for the virtual flowers, Sam.💐 Take Care and have a blessed weekend.🙏🙏🙏

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I would like to know too, I am a beginner and I am very curious to know how much you can master that instrumental

I began the kalimba a few months ago. I mostly learn a song while looking at the kalimba because i am figuring out the notes as I go. And, also at the beginning of a practice session I generally have to look for now, including because my thumbs haven't remembered yet precisely where the tines are, and the various notes. And some songs have notes closer together as opposed to longer distances between notes which are harder for a begginer to know by length of reach. But I spend some practice time with eyes closed on purpose to learn to play by feel. And when I am reading sheet music, it's a pain to have to look up then down up down... so knowing the notes by feel is handy... so for now, I practice the easier parts if working on something with sheet music, the rest I save for when I'm better able to know where the keys are. I have a bad back and have to lay down a lot, or be reclined part way on a hospital bed, so my kalimba(s) get played in several positions, thumb pulling from different directions, so that maybe makes my finger memory a little harder, also because I have different kalimbas and they have different widths and space between the times.... but in any case, it's just a learning process. And you will have to look to know where the notes are til you know them. Don't try to learn them all at once. Use different songs to learn different notes, with definately some songs with limited notes. Or learn to sing the first 30 notes of Ode to Joy, using only 12345, or CDEFG, know it STARTS on 3/c memorize where 3/C is, close your eyes and see if you can work out the first notes, on the kalimba, then more and more of those first 30 notes, the main melody. (Or if thinking of it as a hymn in 3 parts, the first part and third part, which is the same as the first.) Then learn to sing the number names, or the letter names... and then you have learned where those 5 notes are without looking! 3345543211233, 22 3345543211232,11 Personally I think this is a great learning piece because of the stepwise motion, all neighbor notes, kind of up and down the bit of scale its on, all right at the center, middle c and the notes just around it. The next part of the piece is equally easy except one note, played only once is outside the range of a 17 key kalimba. You can play it fine on a 21 key OR playing it one octive higher than the middle C area on a 17 key kalimba. That outsider key would be a G below the C you're playing. But I really enjoy learning the notes physically around middle C (on the kalimba, musically its C and notes above C). It's absolutely my favorite practice piece, and will be the first piece I will ever regularly play without error. And when you want to start pulling 2 notes at once E+C instead of just E, you will work out the harmony really easily. Just a thought about exploring how to learn to know some notes by heart so eventually you don't have to look. Best of luck!

I memorized Canon in D and yes I can play it without looking on my kalimba, but I sometimes mess up on what keys to pluck

@@ThisGirlDood thanks it’s inspiring me🙏

@@joannebaek4551 thanks you for your reply I didn’t expect such a long answers, we can feel your passion, know I want to practice cause of you😂😁