Hokema Kalimba B17 C Major - The Original Handmade in Germany - Thumb Piano - Easy to Learn Musical Instrument - Perfect for Beginners and Professionals

This kalimba is wonderful. It stays in tune and sounds amazing. I am so glad I chose this one. I also got Luna that I do not care for and a 34 key Hluru. Hokema outshines them all. The case for it is a tight squeeze though. This 17 key kalimba is well worth the price.

Mine came perfectly tuned, and the material is great. It's sturdy, and every tine resonates so well. The sound this kalimba produces is very sweet and clear, making it very different from any other kalimba I've tried. Definitely my favorite kalimba. However, it doesn't come with accessories such as a carrying case or tuning hammer, and due to its size and weight, it might turn down some beginners. But I'm sure everyone can grow into it given some time.

I own a Hokema Sansula from many years ago. It's amazing, but limited in note choice. I had a project and needed all scale degrees and beyond ideally. Went with this, as I know Hokema is high quality. Does not disappoint. Great sound. I think maybe even the same tines as on the Sansula. They sustain for a long time and are very pure sounding. It is quite wide and I have big hands, but other people complained about that and I suppose I could see that. Very cool!

I waited a year to buy this, and it was worth every penny. This is the kalimba I wish I started with. The sound is impeccable, the quality is above standard, and it comes perfectly tuned. I have larger hands and other kalimbas felt cramped. This one is perfect for me. If you have smaller hands it won't be be easy to hold as it's on the bigger side. They make a smaller version I believe.

Have had this for quite some time now and every time I play it I am still in awe of the beautiful music it produces. I also have several other brands and this is by far the highest quality. Mine was not damaged in shipping at all thankfully. It was packaged very well. Highly recommend.

I want to like this instrument, and there *are* a lot of good things about it. I will keep playing with it, and revise my review if my opinion changes. The pros: - This instrument is visually very nice. The wood is very nice. It's definitely more of a wax coating compared to a varnish coating like on the lingtings, and it's more visibly real wood compared to something like the hluru. - I do like the concept of the embossed lines on the keys. I'm at the stage of moving away from having key markings, so I think this will be very useful for me to still have a little bit of guidance, but not have full stickers on each key. - It does sound very nice. It has a more music box tone than my other kalimbas, which gives it a unique place in my collection. It has good sustain, and from an overall quality of tone, it's among the best I've tried. I think in terms of sustain, my chill angels is superior, and in terms of tone itself, my hluru is superior, and in terms of uniqueness of tone, my lingting is superior. But, this one finds somewhat of a happy medium where it is overall pleasant and appealing and well rounded. I like it. The cons: - First and foremost, the reason this is getting a 3-star from me. The keys on this instrument are far, far too low and close to the wood. Every stroke, your thumbs will hit the wood - and worse, this makes it impossible to cross a thumb under and pluck a chord on the opposing side. This makes this kalimba nigh-unusable for a majority of the songs I've got, short of coming to an awkward stop while I fumble or adjusting the chord to remove cross-overs, which is far from possible on every one. I've attached side-by-side pictures with the hluru and lingting layouts - you can see how much higher over the wood the keys are. I do not feel the images on the listing accurately conveyed how close to the wood these keys come, while I respect that's difficult for the seller to capture. It's true that this could be a problem with how I play; however, I've seen enough videos of other people playing this way to where I know I'm not unique/this is a very common way of playing, and I've never had this issue on a single other kalimba I've purchased, even low-cost ones. I consider this a fairly unacceptable oversight from an instrument billed as being quality. - My second most pressing complaint is that I can tell even from playing this instrument for a relatively short period of time that this is going to destroy my thumbnails, akin to how my Hluru does. This isn't necessarily a dealbreaker, but for an instrument of this price, I'd have appreciated rounding and shaping the keys a little more so that there isn't just a perfectly flat blade of steel etching away my thumbnails. Playing this sort of key leaves me with divots in my thumbnails after a little while that makes playing more difficult and requires me to cut my nails shorter and regrow. - This is a more minor complaint from me, but the instrument *is* quite large and feels unnecessarily wide. Moving the keys closer together would both make it easier to hold and improve accessibility of some chords/make it easier to hit side by side notes. I would also like to comment, but I'm not going to factor this into the rating - for a $150 kalimba, which is more or less twice what I've paid for any of my other kalimbas, it really should have come with a case, at a minimum. Every single other kalimba I've purchased came with a case, and most came with tuning hammers and stickers for the keys. I did know what came with it prior to purchase, which is why I'm discounting this from the rating, however, I'd have expected the level of quality of the instrument to make up the difference, and I'm not convinced that it does. I know that it included some small magnets for the keys, however, these are far less intuitive and user friendly than a simple set of 17 stickers, and the lack of providing even those comes off as cheap. I recognize that this instrument is german. However, if something is going to be branded toward the more serious market, I do expect it to be designed with the functional use of that instrument in mind.

I can't believe what I received, I suspect it was damaged by a magnet. I am very disappointed.

This is one of my favorite kalimbas, the sound is great, it is very well made, my go to kalimba, love it

J'ai plusieurs kalimbas et, si je préfère les bois "pleins", je les aime toutes car aucune n'a le même son. Ma préférée est ma "petite" dernière, la Kalimba B17 de Hokema. J'ai lu des critiques sur sa taille et son poids, mais en fait, elle a la même épaisseur et est un peu plus grande que la LingTing 21 lames et pèse seulement 40 g de plus. Rien de monstrueux donc. Les atouts de la Hokema B17 - Le volume et la qualité du son sur les 17 lames, j'affirme que les aigus sont magnifiques. Ils sont bons sur la LingTing (ma seconde préférée) mais plus puissants sur la Hokema, et je dirai, cristallins. - L'espace plus grand entre les lames, parfait pour moi - La facilité pour faire des glissandos malgré l'espacement, une bonne surprise car j'avais des craintes à ce sujet. En fait, c'est cet espacement qui me fait préférer la Hokema à la Ling Ting 21 que j'adore pourtant. Et enfin, pour de toutes petites mains, on peut en jouer posée sur une table, elle sonne tout aussi bien.

Il suono è splendido. Il più nitido tra tutti kalimba che ho sentito ed usato. Il legno è bellissimo. La confezione è arrivata distrutta. Fortunatamente il kalimba è integro e senza graffi.

Gran instrument. So perfecte. Fàcil de tocar

I bought it from Japan. Hokema products are not available at Amazon Japan. I'm happy that it arrived sooner than I expected. The product is wonderful, just as I thought. It gives healing by sound such as the music box. A bit disappointing about this is that the sound of the D note on the left end does not last as long as the others. I tried moving it slightly left and right while tuning, but it didn't help. Kalimba is like a musical instrument that shows individual differences, so I think that's what it is. Anyway, I got what I wanted for a long time and I'm very happy with it.

Es ist meine allererste Kalimba und ich bin so was von froh, mich sofort für dieses hochwertig verabeitete „made in Germany Produkt“ entschieden zu haben. (Jeder, der noch überlegt sich eine Kalimba anzuschaffen sollte den billig Massenproduktionen aus fernöstlichen Billiglohn- Ressourcen-Ausbeuter Ländern den Rücken kehren. lieber 1 Mal wertig kaufen statt am Ende zweimal billig und günstig) Durch die Vorrezensenten war ich etwas „ängstlich“, ob diese Kalimba nicht dann doch zu groß, zu wuchtig und zu teuer ist. Ich wurde definitiv eines besseren belehrt und nicht enttäuscht! Zu allererst .Sie ist bestimmt jeden Cent Wert. Die Kalimba kommt schlicht verpackt ohne Plastik in einem nett angepassten Karton an und ich war happy über die Kleinigkeiten an Zubehör, wie die kleinen Hilfsmagnete und auch die kleine Spielanleitung, welche auch echt toll erstellt wurde. Die Kalimba wurde aus einem wirklich wundervollen Holz gefertig. Massive Amerikanische Kirsche. Auf den ersten und zweiten Blick eine hervorragende Wahl und top Verarbeitung! Fantastische Haptik und Optik!! Tatsächlich wäre es auch für mich nicht schlimm gewesen, wenn sie im unteren Bereich etwas schmaler konstruiert worden wäre. Aber erstens, falls es wirklich mal zu „anstrengend“ werden sollte kann man sie auch vor sich hinlegen und spielen, zweitens ist es, denke ich Gewöhnungssache. Wenn man generell mehr Übung hat ist man wahrscheinlich auch weniger verkrampft. Als Schwer empfinde ich sie in den Händen ebenfalls nicht, das Holz ist genau richtig und ich bin eher eine kleingewachsene zierliche Person dementsprechend habe ich auch keine allzu großen Hände. Aber mal ehrlich Leute, die allermeisten von euch benutzen ja auch riesige Klopper von Smartphones usw- also… Die Klangzungen bestehen aus hochwertigem Edelstahl, mit einer laut Beschreibung aufwendigen Plasmabeschichtung. Auch diese sind einwandfrei verarbeitet Und der Klang!!! Ist Hervorragend!! 😊 Ich hatte bedenken, da ich zwar etwas musikalische Erfahrung habe, aber dennoch bezweifelte, ob es gleich diese Ausführung und nicht doch eine kleinere sein sollte. Nein, alles richtig gemacht! Nachdem ich mich etwas eingelesen hatte, habe ich tatsächlich den ganzen Nachmittag mit meiner jetzt schon heiß geliebten Kalimba verbracht und tatsächlich das ein oder andere Liedchen und Melodien erprobt. Auch das Intuitive Spielen schafft sofort harmonischen Klänge, die Beruhigen und Erden. Die Kalimba ist definitiv für wirklich jeden gemacht. Ob Anfänger, Fortgeschrittene für Jung und Alt. Ich bin so überglücklich, dass es noch solche Arbeiten aus einem kleinen in Deutschland produzierenden Familienunternehmen zu erwerben gibt und ich mich dafür entschieden habe! Hier sieht und spürt man die Liebe zum Detail und die wirklich tadellose Verarbeitung. Nicht zuletzt den unschlagbaren fesselnden klaren Klang! Wirklich meisterlich Es wird wahrscheinlich nicht meine letzte Anschaffung aus dem Hause Hokema sein. Vielen Dank Hokema! Bitte macht weiter so!