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Step 4Cut the Tines
You'll need to "borrow" 6-8 metal hairpins from your Mum, Sista or significant other.
The blue tensile steel hairpins give the clearest tone and they often come with a hard enamel dipped end on them for kalimba players' sensitive fingers.
Usually the hairpins have a smooth side and a rippled side. The smooth side is what we have used but you can try with both. I'm intrigued to hear the sound the ripples make, vibrato perhaps!!!
You can always cut some more and swap them later.
Cut them as long as you can but just before they bend around.
File the edges round to avoid scratching.
The blue tensile steel hairpins give the clearest tone and they often come with a hard enamel dipped end on them for kalimba players' sensitive fingers.
Usually the hairpins have a smooth side and a rippled side. The smooth side is what we have used but you can try with both. I'm intrigued to hear the sound the ripples make, vibrato perhaps!!!
You can always cut some more and swap them later.
Cut them as long as you can but just before they bend around.
File the edges round to avoid scratching.
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