Hope all are alright. Anyone picked up any cool new hobbies lately? Anyone play harp? I’m thinking of picking it up, I already play quite a few instruments, but harp has the highest initial investment of any I’ve done so far.

  • Bonsoir@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Myself, full of all of the above because my house was built 100 years ago ^^

    I’ve been playing Kalimba. It’s a really nice instrument for people like me who are not great musicians. Really easy to pick up as a beginner, and you can still play “real” songs with it. Sounds good even if you’re bad. Even if you already play music, it’s still great. Portable too.

    • BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tfOPEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I have a kalimba also! I used to be really good with it, but I stopped playing for a while and lost my thumb callouses. Such a beautiful instrument. I’ve long wanted to experiment with retuning it, but I didn’t want to risk making it unplayable.

      • Bonsoir@lemmy.caEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I’ve tuned mine once because it got out of tune and it was fairly easy. I never tried to retune it, but as far as I know it’s pretty much the same process and you can’t really fuck this up. Don’t worry too much. All you need is a little hammer and a tuner.