Kalimba Thumb Piano 17 Key -Gear

About Kalimba

The kalimba is an African musical instrument consisting of a wooden board (often collated with a resonator) with attached staggered metal tines, played by holding the instrument in the hands and plucking the tines with the thumbs. Just need to use two thumbs play to make a sound. 

Kalimbas are extremely easy to play. You can just pick it up and start playing without having any musical background. The kalimba makes a nice pure sound due to its simple construction. The small design ensure that the kalimba can go anywhere.

Handcrafted with Mahogany Wood: All kalimbas are handmade from high-quality materials, which assure long lifetime and astonishing sound. The kalimba can be played directly. In addition, a music book and course book are included.

International C Tune
Every Thumb Piano is tuned and tested before shipped. The tone is the same as a piano. International C tune 

Best Gift
The finger piano is so easy to learn and so enjoyable for everyone.

Packing list
1 * Kalimba
1 * Instructions
1 * Cloth Bag
1 * Red and green stickers
1 * Tuning Hammer

How to tune:

1. Tuning tool
Portable tuner, tuned piano or cellphone（iOS users can download Tuner Lite or insTuner, Android user can download gstrings）, or a tuning hammer. There are many free apps for both types of devices. Just search for “Tuner”.
2. Tuning steps:
(1) Pluck the middle tine of the Kalimba.
(2) Use the tuning hammer to tune the tine, until the note in the tuner matches the default note and the pointer directing to the center position.