Bobby Kalimba Sound Check

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African thumb piano or kalimba made from a cigar box, a 12-pole electrical busbar, and a dozen jumbo bobby pins.

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    if fender made them they might look like this...

  • have you seen the pins with glue pads...like buttons?

  • Oh i gotcha now.. thanks great idea..

    add a piezo and socket and this would be handy instrument miced up...

  • Also, I have an electrician's fish tape that I'm going to cut tines from and and a old leaf rake I bought at a yard sale. I'm working with a local art center trying to develope homemade roots instruments that kids can make. Hopefully we'll end up with a children's roots music band. 

  • The keys or tines are simply jumbo bobby pins I purchased at a drugstore. I took a pair of needlenose pliers and straightened them out. Be careful doing so since they have a tendency to break. 

  • I have been thinking about one of these ... where did you get the keys from?

  • Kinda fun! 

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