Mark Holdaway

Mark Holdaway is a Kalimba player and kalimba salesperson as well as multi-instrumentalist in Tucson, AZ. Mark began playing the guitar at the age of twelve and, after many years of musical exploration, he struck upon what would become his calling in life, the Kalimba, in 1986 while studying as a graduate student in Cambridge, MA. The Kalimba, or thumb piano, is an African tuned percussion instrument made out of a wooden box or gourd with metal tines that, when plucked with the thumbs, produce a musical tone.