Kalimba 10/17 Songbook - 48 Songs from Ireland & Great Britain: Kalimba Songbooks, #3

By Reynhard Boegl

Songbook with 48 well known and popular songs from Ireland & Great Britain, prepared for easy playing with the Kalimba with 10/17 tines. 
Numbers and symbols (that often can be found on the Kalimba tines) set the tone, the vocal melody determines the rhythm - the easy way of making music!

 

No knowledge of music notes is necessary - play by numbers / symbols - suitable for beginners!

 

Every song was recorded - melody with band and melody without ("playalong"). 
The MP3 sounds are available online (webaddress in the book) in a player with adjustable playback speed. 

Including lyrics, guitar chords, guitar fingerings and suggestion for strumming. This can also be found on the website as PDF download and explanatory video.

 

The full package for starting with the "thumb piano" and making music with friends!

• Language: English
• Publisher: songbooks.info
• Release date: Jul 2, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393916789

Reynhard Boegl

Reynhard Boegl - since 1984 live and studio musician (harmonica, guitar, vocals), music teacher, sound engineer, graphic artist and lyricist, song and textbook author. Lives and works in Linz / Austria and has published almost 100 song- and textbooks for various instruments.

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Table of content

Kalimba 10/17

The tablature

Sounds

A Highland Lad my love was born

Across the western Ocean

Arthur McBride *

At the wave mouth

Auld Lang Syne

Barbara Allen (In scarlet town, where I was born)

Byker Hill

Ceol brutha – A Fairy plaint

Down by the Sally Gardens

Drunken sailor

Duan Nollaig – Christmas Duanag

Eileen Aroon *

Farewell, Nancy *

I will never marry *

I'll tell my ma *

Loch Lomond *

MacPherson's Farewell *

Marmaid Song *

Molly Malone

My Bonnie lies over the ocean

Scots wha hae *

Skye Boat Song

Spancil Hill *

Spanish Lady *

Spinningwheel Song *

Sweet Carnloch Bay

Tam Glen

The Ash Grove *

The Bantry Girls of Lament

The Castle of Dromore

The Croppy Boy *

The Curragh of Kildare *

The Earl of Moray

The Foggy Dew

The Highland Widow's Lament *

The Lark in the Clear Air *

The leaving of Liverpool

The lost Child *

The meeting of the Waters *

The Parting Glass *

The rising of the Moon

The Seagull of the Land-under-Waves

There was a Lad was Born in Kyle

What can a young Lassie do

Whiskey in the Jar

Wild rover *

Will ye go, Lassie? *

Ye Banks and Braes *

Chords

Rhythm pattern

Misc

Imprint

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* only for Kalimba with 17 tines

Kalimba 10 / 17

The tones of a Kalimba with 10 or 17 tines in C major. Including the corresponding numbers which are used in the book. The numbers with dots are one/two octave higher, which is the same as on many kalimbas. If the numbers are printed in bold, the corresponding reed is on the left side of the instrument.

The tablature

(1) chords, for Kalimba in the key of C

(2) lyrics, if you sing them you know the rhythm of the melody

(3) number of the tine, see graphic in the page before

Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 &: rhythm pattern for guitar - see attachment

A Highland Lad my love was born

Robert Burns, Scottish Folk / Pattern: 1 _ 2 & 3 _ 4 &

Wi' his philabeg my love was born,

an' gude claymore down by his side;

The ladies' hearts he did trepan,

my gallant braw John Highlandman.

Sing hey my braw John Highlandman!

Sing ho my braw John Highlandman!

There's no` a l-ad i-n a' the lan',

was match for m-y John Highlandman.

They banished him beyond the sea,

but ere the bud was on the tree,

a down my cheeks the pearls ran,

embracing my John Highlandman.

Sing hey my braw John Highlandman!

Sing ho my braw John Highlandman!

There's no` a l-ad i-n a' the