The Kalimbatone - Chromatic Kalimba

Chromatic kalimbas exist, but they are awfully expensive. Let’s just build one! For those that want to skip forward to a demo: 20:08 This is actually the Kalimbatone Mark II, I had a working prototype that I made a year or two ago, mostly as an exercise in tuning the kalimba tines. And that’s really the standout feature of this instrument: Compared to a traditional kalimba which has pretty enharmonic overtones, this has overtones that are tuned to be 2 octaves above the fundamental. In the lower register,
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