Array Mbira
- DrQuasar
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Re: Array Mbira
I made one for my brother a few years ago using this basic method. I used street sweeper tines I picked up off the street and made the resonator out of a clementines box. Took a while to gather enough tines. Sounded decent, but you have to retighten the grounding screws from time to time. I should start gathering tines to make another.
- Shadoweclipse13
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Re: Array Mbira
That's my thought at this point, what to use for the metal tines...DrQuasar wrote:I made one for my brother a few years ago using this basic method. I used street sweeper tines I picked up off the street and made the resonator out of a clementines box. Took a while to gather enough tines. Sounded decent, but you have to retighten the grounding screws from time to time. I should start gathering tines to make another.
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- mackerelmint
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Re: Array Mbira
I wonder if it'd be worth ordering a bunch of laser cut jobs in various lengths? That could make tuning easier.Shadoweclipse13 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 16, 2017 12:39 pmThat's my thought at this point, what to use for the metal tines...DrQuasar wrote:I made one for my brother a few years ago using this basic method. I used street sweeper tines I picked up off the street and made the resonator out of a clementines box. Took a while to gather enough tines. Sounded decent, but you have to retighten the grounding screws from time to time. I should start gathering tines to make another.
This is an excellent rectangle
- Shadoweclipse13
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Re: Array Mbira
I like this idea a lot, especially for the tuning thing. We could maybe use different metals, possibly 3D printed like from Shapeways?mackerelmint wrote: ↑Tue Oct 24, 2017 10:40 pmI wonder if it'd be worth ordering a bunch of laser cut jobs in various lengths? That could make tuning easier.
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- StevenO
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Re: Array Mbira
All that sounds mighty expensive and time consuming. Perhaps less fun, but I'd imagine it'd be a whole lot easier to just buy one of those $50 dollar ones you get at a music store and modify them?
I've thought about taking the one I have apart and putting it into a bigger chamber, acting almost like a drum or an acoustic guitar body.
I've thought about taking the one I have apart and putting it into a bigger chamber, acting almost like a drum or an acoustic guitar body.
- Shadoweclipse13
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Re: Array Mbira
I was originally thinking of making my own and finding something cheap for the times, but I haven't decided yet. I do know I do want to do one that has a hollow hole for sound AND piezo pickups.
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- egosheep
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Re: Array Mbira
I've long considered the idea of putting a small electric kalimba on a guitar. Either behind the bridge or around the pickguard somewhere... tuned to some sympathetic drone notes. Pretty sure it's been done, but it would be cool.
- Shadoweclipse13
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Re: Array Mbira
That is a SWEET idea!! Like a thinline, but the kalimba has its own hollow section partitioned away from the guitar hollow parts...
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