Coffee-Can Kalimba - DIY Musical Instrument
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- This is a kalimba I made for a friend several years ago. It's made from a coffee can, a clipboard, a paintbrush handle, and some heavy bobby pins (hair pins). I love to play it. It's a very relaxing instrument.
Sorry for the poor sound quality. My camera mic was resonating with the kalimba. You can't hear the distortion when you play it.
That's Awesome, I'll have to try this!!
The song you played in the beginning was really pretty .
Emily Gonzales - Thanks. I was just making it up. I think it was the 1st, 4th and 5th chords. Three-chord rock and roll forever.
Adorable!
Hello, I am trying to build a homemade instrument for a school project and I found your video and I think your Kalimba looks great! Could you provide specific details as to how you built your Kalimba and any tips you would give. Thanks!!
Crystal, thanks for the compliments. I don't really have any instructions other than the ones I gave in the narration of the video. For homemade instruments, you just have to take the materials you have available and experiment until you get something nice. Be creative.
The one tip I would give you is to try and find a tuner of some sort and tune your instrument to a specific key. Even the best instruments sound bad if they aren't tuned correctly, and homemade ones can sound great if they are.
This one might be useful for kids th-cam.com/video/Fp8LAUvPyhQ/w-d-xo.html
David Pitts Hey! I was in the same situation and this helped a lot! Thanks
Beautifully elegant design.
Some might call it a video, I call it a gift. Now I have to drink more coffee...
You need to deaden the "dead end" of the tines. You have them on metal contributing to the sound - but those "dead ends" are not tuned! Don't let that end of the tines vibrate...
Cool! I usually call those thumb pianos, but it sounds cool anyway!
Kilimba is one of the east-African names for thumb pianos, like mbira. I think it is Bantu.
Making a 2d short. I needed music. I don't know how to make it. So let's make a kalimba
I wish there was more lighting to the video, as it is really dark in places in showing what you did.
Awesome
Thanks
Please from where you got the tins of pins
They are hair pins. From a general store.
@@ClaytonDarwin thank you so much 😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘😘
Was the clipboard hardboard , plastic, or metal?
Ethb Me - Hardboard. But I would use something else if I did it again. 3mm plywood maybe.
how long did it take you?
I think once I decided what I wanted, I did it on a Saturday afternoon. But that was 10 years ago.
Ok, cool. It looks and sounds pretty good!
The song you played in the beginning was really pretty .