How to Tune Your Coconut Thumb Piano Kalimba

Carved Culture

We've received requests for a tutorial on tuning your coconut thumb piano, so in this video, I provide a clear step-by-step guide. If you're new to the kalimba, tuning is the essential first skill to master before playing songs. While there are many tuning methods, this is how I personally tune mine, setting the notes from left to right as G, A, B, D, F, C, E.  Explore our collection of thumb pianos here: https://www.carvedculture.co.uk/collections/thumb-pianos

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00:00hey everyone hope you're having a wonderful day as you may know I've been making tutorial videos

00:14on how to play our coconut thumb piano and I had a comment from someone asking me how to tune their

00:21coconut thumb piano kalimba and so today I'm going to show you how to do exactly that and

00:27there is more than one way to do this but this is how I do it so straight up I use this app on my

00:32phone it's called Tuna Pitched it's on the Samsung Play Store and it's just a tuner so when you talk

00:40or make any sound it figures out what note it is that you're playing and it gives you a guide to

00:46get you to the right notes this is the coconut thumb piano that I'm using they do obviously vary a lot

00:51and there's many different types you can get and it's not in tune right now but I will be tuning

00:56it and I'll be showing you how to do it you might want to take a little note I tune this one to G

00:59this next one to A then B then D then F C and then the last one I tune to E

01:13so the first one needs to be tuned to G so let's do that now

01:17so that is actually showing up as G already so move on to the next one which is A

01:28so that's coming up as D so what we want to do is you can do this with a hammer but I just like to

01:36wiggle it like that side to side so now that says G so that needs to go one more note

01:47maybe about there let's try that

01:51so it's A sharp so it needs to come back a little bit more

01:57so that's A next we want to go to B which is this one

02:11that's coming up as A so we're going to move that back a little bit

02:16right it's saying C now so we're going to come back a little bit more

02:21A sharp a little bit back

02:27so that's A and B then this one needs to be D

02:33that's saying C so we need to move it to D a little bit more

02:48C sharp

02:51tiny bit more

02:52and there we go it's at D

02:57and the next note is F

02:59so let's wiggle that

03:06right we're at C sharp

03:10let's go a bit more

03:12that's E

03:14go back a tiny bit more

03:16and we're at F

03:19now we're on to this one which is meant to be C

03:22and it's actually on C

03:27but it's a tiny bit out so we're just going to move it back a little bit

03:30there you go that sounds better

03:33now the last one is meant to be E

03:36so we're just going to move that

03:37so that's that F sharp

03:41so what we can actually do is bring this out a little bit more

03:43that's saying F

03:48bring it out a little bit more

03:49D sharp

03:53too much

03:54F again

03:57it's a bit fiddly

04:00but once it's in tune

04:01it doesn't really go out of tune unless you knock it quite a lot

04:05there we go

04:14and so this is now in tune

04:15and each note is its own clear note

04:18so

04:19there we go it's in tune

04:30so I'll just bring this closer so you can see

04:32so we've got G

04:33then we've got A

04:36B

04:38D

04:41F

04:43F

04:43C

04:45and E

04:47there we go all good

04:50so there you go Tarek

04:51that's how to tune your coconut thumb piano kalimba

04:54and if anyone has any more suggestions

04:57has any more video requests

04:58I'd love to hear them

05:00just leave a comment and I'll get to it

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05:04thanks for watching

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