A Marimba I built last year - took me a bit over half a year to complete. 61 keys made of Padauk, all hand-tuned, on a frame of Red Oak and Walnut

bitsplease ( @bitsplease@lemmy.ml ) · 1 year ago

A Marimba I built last year - took me a bit over half a year to complete. 61 keys made of Padauk, all hand-tuned, on a frame of Red Oak and Walnut

surrendertogravity ( @surrendertogravity@beehaw.org ) · edit-2 1 year ago

Thanks for all the great details and the link! I imagine tuning must be a bit nerve wracking and involve lots of constant testing, since carving the wood down is pretty irreversible.

bitsplease ( @bitsplease@lemmy.ml ) · 1 year ago

Yeah it was definetely a bit stressful at times, thankfully you can only ever screw up one key at a time though! And there’s a bit of correction to be done by trimming the edges off the key