17 Keys Kalimba - Wooden Thumb Piano

Meet PlayLimba™ 17 Keys 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. The kalimba is produced classified as part of the lamellaphone family, and part of the idiophone family of musical instruments.

Unlike other cheap thumb pianos, this kalimba uses a high-quality solid mahogany wood making of a resonance box and carbon steel making of keys that provide a better sound. Each product has been rigorously tuned before packaging, to ensure the tone is great. And the tone is the same as a piano, for international standard C tune. 

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 and carrying case ensure that the kalimba can go anywhere.

Handmade: 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.

How to tune

To tune a kalimba is to actually adjust tines so they have the exact sound they are supposed to, according to which note a tine is designated to play.

1: Tuner:
You can use a real tuner or download an App.
Android system app: gStrings, Apple system app: Instuner.

2. Tune with a tuning hammer:
Making tines longer (from the point where they are held down on the bridge) will lower their pitch, and making them shorter will make their pitch higher.

Why choosing kalimba

Easy to learn. Even without any musical knowledge, it is easy to learn to play the kalimba.

Music lovers can make music anywhere with a kalimba.

Great gift for children, let them develop their own musicality.

For the friend that relax with soft kalimba music after a hard day's work.