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Can anybody tell what type of metal this might be? (on a thumb piano)?
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/drums-percussion/meinl-kalimba-thumb-piano/580730000120000?src=3WWRWXGB&ZYXSEM=0 i am in science olympiad and am building a thumb piano. I need to know what type of metal to use:) if anyone could tell what this might be, that would be very helpful! and if not, does anoyone have any experience as to what type of metal i should use? :)
They are almost all made of steel, cold-hammered from salvage, i.e. re-used metal. When they were truly 'indigenous' and somewhat spontaneous 'native' creations, the materials were about any nature of scrap, the resonator or gourd, cigar box, or whatever was handy (see the first link, a contemporary European builder, for the wild and fun array of varying resonating bodies). Kalimba Mbira Sansa Likembe Thumb Piano Lamellaphone -- instruments of R.P. Collier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXgPaxxqLVg Scrap being scrap, the steel was of varying quality and percents of other alloy, capricious as to the original source of how much iron was in the pig metal at casting. The keys were made of nails, Uncoiled springs, etc. etc. etc. Cold hammering these materials is an intense labor of love, of will, in transforming those utilitarian objects to the metal keys (and bridge) just in order to make a bit of music :-) Mbira of Zimbabwe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIPORpN27CY playing the Kalimba, I feel.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1YpD4lC3VA&feature=related Tuning 'systems' vary, some pentatonic, others more varied. They range from a handful of tines to some with several octaves running in chromatic scales.) A list of names (from Wikipedia) differing from dialect to dialect throughout Africa -- the instrument's country of origin) and the Mediterranean, : Mbira, Mbila, Mbira Huru, Mbira Njari, Mbira Nyunga, Marimba, Karimba, Kalimba, Likembe, Okeme - as well as marÃmbula (also called kalimba) in the Caribbean Islands. Best regards.