Welding a Resonator Cone Kalimba - Stainless Steel Thumb Piano!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- Thanks for checking out my Kalimba build video! I needed a wedding present for a good friend of mine and he's a very music-oriented person, I thought I would have some fun and make him and his wife a stainless steel musical instrument! I came up with a design in Rhino 3D that I could die stamp parts for in my hydraulic press. One of the forming dies was 3D printed, then cast in concrete! The formed pieces were TIG welded or soldered together into this unique little music box. It didn't come out perfectly but it's the thought that counts, right?
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What a wonderful gift dude, thank you so much! I can't wait to try it out, but seeing you make it here is a present in and of itself. I can't wait to bring it to band practice and fuck some shit up ;D Love ya dude, you're the best! CHEERS!
You're welcome! Thanks for being a great friend all these years! Congratulations and happy-ever-after to you and Danielle!
"they specifically said they prefer cash gifts, so I'm going to make them an instrument"
Thats pretty funny
I couldn't miss the opportunity to make them something lol
I can't remember any other channel where i'm looking video from beginning to the end. Excellent result and welcome back.
Thanks Sergey! Showing the whole process, beginning to end is my whole goal!
You'd have to have the resonator cone much wider than the keys, and have all the key impact on the same area. Same way as reso guitars work.
Or make it like a 3 key kalimba, just the center ones? lol
Happy to see you back on the TH-cam man. Long time no see sir. Punker man that’s a real cool project man. Hope they love it and enjoy it for many years ahead. Can't wait to see more updates an projects and many more videos soon my friend. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Fab On. Weld On. Keep Making. God Bless.
Thanks Jared! Yes I've been very busy with work this year! I suppose that's a good problem to have though! Thanks for watching and all the support! Definitely more videos to come.
Have a read on Bart Hopkin's Music instrument design, it has all the basics. The higher notes not able to resonate has to do with the dobro like disk lacking the ability vibrate at those frequencies, this is a bit different from how string instruments works where the ability for a string to vibrate at a certain frequency depends very little on the body, which is just a radiator. However in kalimba's case, because of the rigidity of the tines and the whole system, both the front portion of the body as well as the back of the body have to contain the needed frequencies in their natural frequency in order for those tines to sound. The easiest solution is to replace the disk with a solid piece of metal, around 1/2-3/4 inch thick should be enough.
Scale the fingers up atleast 50% in length that will solve your problem. Will lower the pitch though but atleast will work properly.
Ahh thank you!
@@PunkerBuilds you can do a quick test by mounting the longest finger which is in the middle on the outside and see if it than sounds good and resonates good.
Dude! That sounds a hundred times better! ... great, now i have to make tines too Haha. Thank you!