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Topic: Strange Marimba on Ebay |
Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 2:28 am |
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It's hard to tell because of parallax in the photographs, but it looks like the leftmost bar on the fourth course is about the same length as a bar in the middle of the first row? So does it have a lot of duplicate notes? It says it has 48 resonator tubes and a range from G1 To C5, which is 42 notes - it would be nice to see some manufacturer's info, to say the least. I guess you could wrap your head around some oddball chromatic note mapping - people can play glass harmonicas, classical kazoos, musical saws, even pedal steel guitar (!). They appear to be a legitimate Ebay music store, mostly selling "original" import guitars?
36 Strings, Anyone?
But how do you PLAY it?[This message was edited by David Mason on 01 December 2006 at 02:32 AM.] |
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Charlie McDonald
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out of the blue
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 7:09 am
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| Very wierd. The compass is said to be 4 octaves, yet the width is 24 notes. So is this like a double neck at different ranges? |
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Bobby Lee
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Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 10:50 am
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At first I thought it might be a Diamond Marimba, but it's not.
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Chris LeDrew
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Canada
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 11:21 am
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"Strange Marimba"...........I didn't know they made any other kind.  |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 4:37 pm
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| Found the tuning here |
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Les Anderson
From:
The Great White North
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Posted 1 Dec 2006 11:32 pm
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On another note Bobby, how are you coming along with your marimba?
A steel guitar and a marimba make beautiful harmonies with each other. |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 2 Dec 2006 8:50 am
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I'm playing marimba on a few songs every set. I really enjoy playing it alone at home a lot more than carting it around to play it in the band. I'm not good at it, but the variety of sound is a big selling point for the band, and it actually does fit better than pedal steel in some of our songs.
I can't play marimba and steel at the same time, but I have been known to take a mallet to the strings on occasion!
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Max Laine
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Pori, Finland
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Posted 10 Jan 2007 2:11 pm
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Is this the same instrument?
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