Archive for June, 2009

Finalizing the Marimba Resonators

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Ok – so I’m still a week or two behind with this marimba building blog – I’m actually almost finished building now, but I’ll make another couple of posts to take you all through the processes. This post follows the last by about a week or so. Here’s what I managed to accomplish in that […]

Marimba resonators and More!

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

Hi all… well last time I left you  it was almost two weeks ago and I’d just got to the interesting stage of putting the marimba together. I’d tuned a few of the easier resonators in the middle octaves and layed the bars out on the basic frame structure. The previous weekend was a “long […]

Marimba nodes, frame & resonators

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Hi all – it’s been just over a week since my last post, and I’ve managed to put together just a few hours this week to work on the 5 octave marimba project. Progress has been a mix of straight forward “business as usual” work for fast progress, and experimental playing around to develop some […]