 [1722]Re:Re:Marimba Building (453 reads) |
2002-04-04 03:56:29 |
Would you suggest starting out with some other kind of wood, for one's first attempts at cutting and tuning bars? I agree 100% that rosewood is the only way to go for the final finished product, but since I expect (and I'm guessing here, since I've never tuned a bar myself) that one would experience one or two botched attempts at first before coming up with a useable bar, why spend the money on rosewood when at "square one" of the learning curve? (I don't necessarily mean building an entire instrument out of this "training" wood, just doing a handful of individual bars to learn the process first.) Is it possible to learn the initial lessons of bar instrument tuning by using a wood other than rosewood or paduk? I'm reminded of an old Doonesbury cartoon, set in the Revolutionary War era, where an apprentice was trying to convince Sam (John?) Adams that she should be allowed to use silver right off, that it's just "so much nicer" than the pewter he told her to start out with. "This stein would have come out SO MUCH NICER if you'd let me use SILVER like I asked!" ;) JW http://www.malletjazz.com Remote Host: |
 [1708]Marimba Building <Bryce Johnson> |
2002-03-28 14:44:06 |
 [1721]Re:Marimba Building <Bill Youhass> |
2002-04-04 03:17:35 |
 [1722]Re:Re:Marimba Building <James Walker> |
2002-04-04 03:56:29 |
| [1727]Re:Re:Re:Marimba Building <Bill Youhass> |
2002-04-05 03:32:40 |
| [1746]Re:Re:Re:Re:Marimba Building <Bryce Johnson> |
2002-04-09 06:20:02 |
| [1771]Re:Marimba Building <Bill Youhass> |
2002-04-21 01:33:27 |
| [1773]Marimba Building <Bryce Johnson> |
2002-04-21 01:47:38 |