![]() Here is how that went: My son had bought me a vintage Hugh Tracey Treble in excellent condition from Ebay. ![]() The concept of a Bb Treble kalimba was not initially a clear shining notion in my mind, but rather a design that I backed into over the course of months. It eventually went to live with a friend, while I developed my long love affair with the Alto kalimba. ![]() (That is, the lowest note was “Do” of “Do Re Mi”, and the highest note was also “Do”, two octaves up.) With the Alto kalimba now in hand, my Treble was set aside. A few years later, I got an Alto kalimba, and it was like day and night! I understood the Alto, with the root note as the lowest tine, and its range of exactly two octaves. I bought it, but somehow I never really bonded with the instrument. I had actually just come from a friend’s house who had an Alto, and we’d all played the Alto and loved it – but when I went to the drum shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts back in 1986, they only had the Treble, with the 3rd note of the scale in the lowest tine (and not the root note, as in Altos). This is the very first Bb Treble kalimba I made about 10 years ago
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