thing 25: oak box boo
February 26th, 2008
Bart Hopkin calls it a boo – a tongue drum made from a tube of bamboo or a box. It might not seem complicated compared to some of my earlier instruments, but for me, cutting and attaching these five pieces of wood was like brain surgery. Notice that no two sides are the same length, and the notches for the tongue are all slanted. Anyway, it goes a little bit like this.
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During February 2008 I made a new handmade instrument each day.
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1. Simon | March 21st, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Harry Partch made a marimba out of bamboo and called it boo. I’m pretty sure that was before Hopkins though he could have taken the name (or come up with it independently).
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