If you’ve ever wanted to play a musical instrument but didn’t have the time, patience and/or money to spend years on expensive music lessons, learning to read music, hours and hours of tedious practice…then read on.
A new musical instrument has been discovered… This magical musical instrument is so easy to play that anyone can make beautiful music in 10 minutes! Anyone can create a beautiful and original song with harmonizing chords within 10 minutes of playing this musical instrument for the first time!
Sounds like a dream, doesn’t it? Well, thanks to what Dr. Hugh Tracey has developed, it is now a dream come true! Dr. Hugh Tracey is the man who invented the Kalimba. The Kalimba is a musical instrument with its origins in South Africa. Hugh Tracey was an Englishman from Devonshire, England. So how does an Englishman invent a South African musical instrument? In his youth, rather than go to Cambridge or Oxford to study, Hugh Tracey decided to sail to South Africa in the 1920s to seek his fortune on a family member’s tobacco farm in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
Hugh became fascinated by the local musical culture and was particularly fascinated by a family of instruments known as the Mbira – (ehm-BEE-rah). Mbira, also known as ‘Thumb-Piano’ originates from Zimbabwe. Of the different instruments in the mbira family, the most sacred and revered instrument is the: Mbira dza Vadzimu – pronounced (ehm-BEE-rah-zah-vahd-ZEE-moo) …Mbira of the Ancestral Spirits
Hugh Tracey modified and redesigned the Mbira. His brilliant re-engineering of the mbira in the 1960’s became a “new” African musical instrument… “Kalimba”. Although it has become part of our vernacular, the word “Kalimba(TM)” is actually a trademarked name (Patent Numbers 22,565, 60/3777, 900,796, 68/7040).
Due to the unique configuration of the Hugh Tracey “Kalimba”, any 2 adjacent notes form a melodic sounding chord. The chords are harmonized and blend well. Anyone can start sounding good right away!
A Kalimba does not have those discordant chord patterns on adjacent notes that ALL other instruments have. It always makes chords of adjacent notes that are harmonized. That means any combination of 2 adjacent notes will sound good with only 1 exception: the bottom note… But… Just play the bottom note alone and it sounds GREAT and harmonizes with every 2 note chord. In fact, if you run your thumb over any combination of 2, 3, 4 or more adjacent notes, it creates nice, nice-sounding chords that harmonize with each other.
No other instrument has this unique configuration. now anyone can play a musical instrument and make beautiful music right out of the box. A beginner can start creating beautiful sounding tones right away… – Simply by playing any 2 adjacent notes with the thumbnails – Simply hold any kind of rhythm and finish your composition by playing the root note (either the top right or bottom note) .
In less than 10 minutes you can create your first piece of music on the Kalimba… and it sounds great right away! No dissonant bitter notes. The notes harmonize and form chords that sound great. Now anyone can make beautiful music right away.