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Kalimba with resonanzbody
The Kal-9 has two holes in the bottom to create a vibrato.
The Sansula with ist nice minor tuning is the Stradivarius of the kalimbas with the magical over-tones. The Sansula can be set in your lap and the player can move it up and down to create a variety of over-tones and vibratos. Tuning:a, c`, e`, f`, a`, a`, b`, c``, e``
Instrument history tellers from South Africa like to use. The kalimbas are also called a thumb piano, Mbira, or Sanza. The specialty is in the way different vibrations are created. Different Tunings.
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Kalimba classic, 9 tones
pentatonic a min a'-e'', 7.6 x 6 x 2.4 inch Art. Nr.: KAL-9 |
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Kalimba Sansula, 9 tones
pentatonic a min a'-e'', 8 x 6.4 x 3.2 inch Art. Nr.: KAL-SAN |
 
Backside of the Sansula-Deluxe
Screws for tuning the skin  |
Kalimba Sansula deluxe, 9 tones
pentatonic a min a'-e'', 8 x 6.4 x 3.2 inch Art. Nr.: KAL-SADE |
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Sansula Renaissance, 9 notes
pentat. A-minor a'-e'', with extra durable Remo Renaissance skin, 8” x 6.4” x 3.2” Art. Nr.: KAL-REN |
Feedback by users:
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My best friend is the Sansula. I have experienced wonderful times with her – at a lake to get close to the sound of water, and every day for myself and for my partner. The sounds of the Sansula bring me into the tender experience of listening in on my own inner world. What does my inner world tell me? The Sansula helps me to translate this sense. Nicole Griebel, musician, Knetzgau |  |
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I play Kalimbas to talk to the brook. The brook flows just where the meadow meets the forest and bubbles and chuckles along. Where the water meets a big rock, it splashes and gurgles. A tiny waterfall drops into the brook drop by drop. I hold my sansula in my lap and sit and listen and suddenly my hands start playing. They start a conversation, a dialog with the water. Water music is created that makes me dreamy. The sound of the Kalimba has fascinated me for many years since I first bought the classic Kalimba. Then I bought the pocket kalimba, which accompanies me on many journeys; then the Sansula; and recently the Sansula deluxe, an extremely beautiful instrument. Wolfram Spiegel , Teacher, Hanover | |
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A night in the large teepee. A fire is burning. Ingo with several drums and the Sansula, Klaus with drums and a flute, and I with my cello are sitting around the fire. On the carpet in the teepee, a group of our friends is gathered. Some dance; some rest comfortably listening. I love that music makes it possible for me to merge with the night, with the place and the people gathered. The cello allows me this but the grounding drums of my friends allow us all to ride together. Enjoying the difference and the earthy continuity. Klaus lifts us up when he uses a curved branch to rub the big drum. The more I trust into the grounding rhythm, the more I can allow myself to expand. That drums produce more than rhythm - that they are also sound - is knowledge that both Ingo and Klaus have in their hands. What a contrast when Ingo uses the sansula to create magical sounds. We are transformed, not any more who we were, and yet everything is effortless. Stephan Schrader, Cellist, Bremen | |
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Sansula Essentially, this is a high quality kalimba embedded in the center of an equally high quality, small oval drum. The Sansula produces a surprisingly clear and resonant tone, and its excellent volume is surprising and delightful. I have never had | |