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Kalimba tunings

🔗Aaron Johnson <aaron@...>

4/3/2009 12:54:48 PM

Hey all,

My wife and I picked up a pair (alto and soprano) Hugh Tracey kalimbas on
Sunday.

I tuned them briefly to a quasi 7-equal, and was sick of that pretty
quickly. I realized I wanted expressive, xentonal or otherwise, half-steps.

What traditional or experimental tunings does anyone suggest for kalimbas? I
saw this post, which looked interesting:

/makemicromusic/topicId_11002.html#11072

-Aaron

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🔗robert thomas martin <robertthomasmartin@...>

4/3/2009 6:35:30 PM

--- In MakeMicroMusic@yahoogroups.com, Aaron Johnson <aaron@...> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> My wife and I picked up a pair (alto and soprano) Hugh Tracey kalimbas on
> Sunday.
>
> I tuned them briefly to a quasi 7-equal, and was sick of that pretty
> quickly. I realized I wanted expressive, xentonal or otherwise, half-steps.
>
> What traditional or experimental tunings does anyone suggest for kalimbas? I
> saw this post, which looked interesting:
>
> /makemicromusic/topicId_11002.html#11072
>
> -Aaron
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
From Robert. Here are more links which might be helpful:

/micromadeeasy/topicId_unknown.html#230

/micromadeeasy/topicId_unknown.html#161