Learn kalimba, stylophone, kazoo and jaw harp songs
Free number tabs and falling-note lessons for the kalimba, the stylophone, the kazoo and the jaw harp. Pick an instrument, pick a song, play it in your browser.
Instruments
- Kalimba
A kalimba, also called a thumb piano, is a small hand-held instrument with metal tines that you pluck with your thumbs. The usual 17-key kalimba in C is tuned to the C major scale, so every white-note melody in C can be played on it with number tabs.
- Stylophone
The Stylophone is a pocket-sized electronic instrument that you play by touching a metal keyboard strip with a stylus. It plays one note at a time with a buzzing sound, so a tune is a single line of key numbers.
- Kazoo
A kazoo is a small tube with a membrane that buzzes when you hum or sing into it. It has no keys: the tune comes from your voice, so learning a song on the kazoo means singing the right notes.
- Jaw harp
A jaw harp (also called a Jew’s harp or mouth harp) is a small metal frame with one reed. The reed always sounds the same note; you change the tune by shaping your mouth, which picks out one of its overtones, so a jaw harp tab is a rhythm and a number from 1 to 16.
- Otamatone
The Otamatone is a small Japanese electronic instrument shaped like a musical note with a face. You drag along its stem to change the pitch, so there are no keys: a tune is a smooth slide from one place on the stem to the next.