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Making Waves, a New Sound. Part 2: The Ripple cello
Having run through the process once with the Ripple Fiddle, I was ready to tackle the cello, starting with a review of the “prototype”. I...
Making Waves, a New Sound. Part 1: The Ripple Fiddle
A commission from Bay Area cellist, composer, and songwriter, Mia Pixley led to a creative partnership and the development of one of the few new...
Tabolin – Part 3, Sound Test
The Tabolin was strung up and played with different configurations of weights on the velum panels. Results With no weights The Tabolin is responsive, balanced...
Off-beat Violins
A collection of instruments for tonal and aesthetic exploration. This began as a Covid project. I’d long wanted to make an instrument that showed off...
The Tabolin – Part 2, Construction and Exploration.
In part 1 of this post I discussed the ideas behind the hybrid “Tabolin”. The instrument is part violin, part tabla drum and will feature...