Someone covered Metallica on the kalimba, and it's beautiful

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Must try this on my original Hugh Tracy kalimba, though this looks like an alto kalimba with 2 lower reeds.

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That instrument has excellent tone. I’m more accustomed to hearing ones built by hammering nails flat and bending them into roughly the right shape.

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I am just making an educated guess, but I think in addition to being a nice purpose-built instrument, it probably has a built in pickup, I would guess like a piezo contact mic but in theory it could use magnetic-type pickups like a guitar does. Also it has some reverb etc added, which helps a lot.

Kinda makes me want to try making a (not terrible) one

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I’m a fan of Accoustic Trench playing his kalimba for his lovely doggo Here Comes The Sun on a Kalimba - YouTube

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I remember a classmate playing a beautiful song on a classical 12 string guitar - sounded like Bach, but it was a Metallica song.

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