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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">The african-origin [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimba|kalimba/mbira]] is another instrument that is small and cheap and easy to retune, and hence another good candidate as a gateway to microtonal music. Retuning is apparently common practice among the traditional Mbira masters in Africa - see e.g. [[http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/11005|this article]] by Joe Monzo on the MakeMicroMusic yahoo forum.
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">The african-origin [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimba|kalimba/mbira]] is another instrument that is small and cheap and easy to retune, and hence another good candidate as a gateway to microtonal music. Retuning is apparently common practice among the traditional Mbira masters in Africa - see e.g. [[http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/11005|this article]] by Joe Monzo on the MakeMicroMusic yahoo forum.
Reference material on mbira:
Paul F. Berliner, [[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3644709.html|The Soul of Mbira]], University of Chicago Press, 1993.
L. E. McNeil, S. Mitran, [[https://www.academia.edu/2847668/Vibrational_frequencies_and_tuning_of_the_African_mbira|Vibrational Frequencies and Tunings of the African Mbira]], Journal of the Acoustical Society of America&lt;span class="a"&gt;, 2008.&lt;/span&gt;


Several members of the Yahoo tuning forums have used kalimbas for microtonal music. See, e.g.:
Several members of the Yahoo tuning forums have used kalimbas for microtonal music. See, e.g.:
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<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;kalimba (mbira)&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;The african-origin &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimba" rel="nofollow"&gt;kalimba/mbira&lt;/a&gt; is another instrument that is small and cheap and easy to retune, and hence another good candidate as a gateway to microtonal music. Retuning is apparently common practice among the traditional Mbira masters in Africa - see e.g. &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/11005" rel="nofollow"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; by Joe Monzo on the MakeMicroMusic yahoo forum.&lt;br /&gt;
<div style="width:100%; max-height:400pt; overflow:auto; background-color:#f8f9fa; border: 1px solid #eaecf0; padding:0em"><pre style="margin:0px;border:none;background:none;word-wrap:break-word;width:200%;white-space: pre-wrap ! important" class="old-revision-html">&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;title&gt;kalimba (mbira)&lt;/title&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body&gt;The african-origin &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalimba" rel="nofollow"&gt;kalimba/mbira&lt;/a&gt; is another instrument that is small and cheap and easy to retune, and hence another good candidate as a gateway to microtonal music. Retuning is apparently common practice among the traditional Mbira masters in Africa - see e.g. &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/MakeMicroMusic/message/11005" rel="nofollow"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt; by Joe Monzo on the MakeMicroMusic yahoo forum.&lt;br /&gt;
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Reference material on mbira:&lt;br /&gt;
Paul F. Berliner, &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/S/bo3644709.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;The Soul of Mbira&lt;/a&gt;, University of Chicago Press, 1993.&lt;br /&gt;
L. E. McNeil, S. Mitran, &lt;a class="wiki_link_ext" href="https://www.academia.edu/2847668/Vibrational_frequencies_and_tuning_of_the_African_mbira" rel="nofollow"&gt;Vibrational Frequencies and Tunings of the African Mbira&lt;/a&gt;, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America&lt;span class="a"&gt;, 2008.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Several members of the Yahoo tuning forums have used kalimbas for microtonal music. See, e.g.:&lt;br /&gt;
Several members of the Yahoo tuning forums have used kalimbas for microtonal music. See, e.g.:&lt;br /&gt;