MARIMBA
Type of instrument:Percussion instrument Materials used to make it:Of wood, plastic, rubber, natural wool or nylon How it's made: Belt Sander - You will be using this a lot so get something comfortable. Drill - You will need to drill holes through the width of the bars for the marimba string. I suggest a drill press but a hand drill will work just fine. Table Saw - for making all those cuts. Band Saw - not essential but recommended if you will be cutting bass notes. Miter Saw - really handy with the frame and resonators. How it's tune it: The most important step in making a marimba is creating the tuned marimba bar. First, gather all the necessary tools. Choose the type of wood you want to work with. Use your sander to carve an arch in the bottom of the marimba bar. Repeat the process of sanding and testing the bar until you reach the desired note. You have completed the most important step in creating your own marimba! Test the bar for the fundamental and first overtone. The marimba bar produces two tones, the fundamental and the first overtone. Parts of marimba:
Resonance boxes: Resonance boxes are now made of cedar or cypress wood, tuned according to the key and with a membrane glued with wax at the lower end, which allows the "charleo" or vibration that facilitates the prolongation sound. The manufacture of each of these sound boxes carries a process very similar to the guitar. The fabric:The fabric used to produce sound is acquired from the intestines of pig through a process.
The maces: The material of these maces is of maple or rattan wood. Within the part that strikes the sheets, there is a ball, made of wood, plastic, rubber or rubber, and covered with natural wool or nylon, also known as bobbins or vaquetas in southern Mexico. The table: It is made with special woods. It can carry fine finishes, inlaid wood and the name engraved on it.
Marimba ensembles it can play:
Standing.band or orchestra.
Important composers and works:
NDR Radiophilharmonie,Keiko Abe,Bruce Adolphe,Stephen Brown and Aisha Duo.
-materials used to make it:By a metal tube, which can be of several materials, which can be straight or be curved. It has a nozzle in the form of a funnel and its ending is conical (bell shape).
-how we tune it:To fine tune you put the tuner in the bell of the bugle and that the bugler emits the note without vibrating, if the digital needle or the color is in the middle, our instrument is tuned, if on the contrary the tuning tends to go to the right you have to Raise the tudel until the digital needle is in the middle and if it tends to go to the left we have to lower the tudel until the digital needle is in the middle.
-main parts of the instruments:
-pabellon:This one is soldier to the superior cane; Is of the number twenty-four brass; Has a length of seven centimeters, with the shape of a truncated cone, which at the base has a circumference of twenty four centimeters, which ends in a cord made with the same blade to give greater resistance to the edge, and at the vertex Circumference is approximately four centimeters with eight millimeters.
-Superior Can:It is located behind the pavilion attached to it by means of welding; Has a length of approximately seventy-three centimeters; Is also of conical form, being its greater diameter of forty and eight millimeters. Approximately in the middle, it curves with a opening of ten centimeters, thus giving beginning to the first return of the cornet. It is attached to the lower shaft by means of welding and the bushing; By the outer side of the curve has joined by means of welding, the chavacote and exactly below this one by the inner side, is located one of the rings.
-Lower Rod: Like the part described above, it is made of brass blade number twenty-four. Properly in it begins the conicity of the horn that ends in the pavilion; Is located attached to the upper rod by means of the welding and the bush; It has a length of thirty-six centimeters; Its largest diameter is one centimeter with seven millimeters and the smallest of eleven; Is welded at its opposite end to the housing of the tudel. At about eight centimeters, it is curved in semicircular form, with an opening of nine centimeters and a half and in the inner part of the curve has joined by means of welding the other ring.
-Accommodation: This piece, together with the tudel, are the only ones on the cornet completely straight; It measures fifteen centimeters and a half, with an inner diameter of twelve millimeters; At the front end and what is where the horn ends, has a welded seam with a clamp which has two rings, one of them threaded with a cord of 3/16, which serve to introduce the butterfly, which when pressed holds the tudel in Position for proper tuning.
-Tudel:Es un tubo de quince centímetros de largo, con un diámetro de once punto milímetros, el extremo opuesto, o sea donde se introduce la boquilla, tiene soldada una abrazadera con orejas cuyo fin es el dar mayor resistencia en esa parte a la pieza y las orejas facilitan el manejo de la misma. El tudel, colocado en su alojamiento, tiene un ajuste tal qué al tiempo qué se impide qué el aire escape facilita el deslizamiento longitudinal.
-Nozzle: It is a piece of turned bronze, scoring in it five main parts which are: edge of the cup, cup, grain, throat and body. The nozzle has a total length of about nine centimeters. The edge of the cup is the part where the lips are placed to touch, this edge has varying diameters, depending on the shape of the lips to touch. The cup receives this name by the resemblance what it has with this utensil; The inside of it should be uniform and convex, in the center carries a drill called grain and has a diameter of three millimeters. The throat is located where the cup ends and the nozzle body begins. The body is conical in shape, both internally and externally; Begins in the grain and ends with a diameter of eight millimeters.
-Hoops: They are of brass wire of the number eight, have a diameter of fifteen millimeters, are welded to bases of circular form in the superior cane as in the inferior one; These pieces serve to secure the garment in the horn.
-Chavacote: It is a piece of the same material as the horn, it has a length of thirteen centimeters and in the form of an extended dude; Is connected to the upper rod by means of welding and serves to reinforce said rod in the curve on the outer side thereof.
ANTONIO ESTRADIVARI -Disciple of another famous luthier, Niccolò Amati, from 1665 he began to work on his own, founding in 1680 his own workshop. He designed and then began to manufacture narrower and longer violins, features that would gradually accentuate over the years. These proportions favored a more penetrating tone; The density of the wood and a special varnish, whose formula is unknown, contributed to the increase of the vibration and, in the end, to the perfection of the sound Although the violins are the instruments that more fame have procured to him, also constructed violas and cellos . Favorites of the great virtuosos for the beauty and quality of their distinctive bell and the perfection of their bill, Niccolò Paganini, Henri Vieuxtemps and Giovanni Battista Viotti are some of the interpreters who have made of them some mythical instruments. The work of Stradivarius, who signed his last violin at ninety-two years, was continued by his two sons, Francesco (1671-1743) and Omobono (1679-1742)
Antonio Stradivari was the most prominent Italian luthier. The Latin form of his surname, Stradivarius, is used to refer to his instruments. His first violin was made of recycled wood. Wikipedia
Date of birthday:1644, Cremona, Italy
Date of death: December 18, 1737, Cremona, Italy
Children: Omobono Stradivari, Francesco Stradivari, More
Books: Memoirs of a Stradivarius, More
Spouse: Zambelli Costa (m. 1699), Francesca Feraboschi (m. 1667-1698)
Siblings: Giuseppe Giulia Cesare Stradivari, Carlo Felice Stradivari, Giovanni Battista Stradivari
Date of birth: 1644, Cremona, Italy
Date of death: December 18, 1737, Cremona, Italy
Children: Omobono Stradivari, Francesco Stradivari, More
Books: Memoirs of a Stradivarius, More
Spouse: Zambelli Costa (m. 1699), Francesca Feraboschi (m. 1667-1698) Siblings: Giuseppe Giulia Cesare Stradivari, Carlo Felice Stradivari, Giovanni Battista Stradivari
GUARNERI -Bartolomeo Giuseppe Antonio Guarneri, of the Gesù Cremona, August 21, 1698 Cremona, 17 October 1744 was an Italian luthier, also known as Guarneri del Gesù for signing his instruments inside the soundboard with the words Nomina sacra, IHS (the monogram of Christ) and a Roman cross. Its instruments have a prestige and value comparable to those of Antonio stradivari. -Niccolò Paganini used many violins of various authors but his most famous and beloved instrument was a Guarneri del Gesù dubbed "Il Cannone" (for his power) and revalorized the work of a luthier had until then as a secondary.Some high-profile violinists, such as David Garrett, Uto Ughi, Pinchas Zukerman, Henryk Szeryng, Jascha Heifetz, Isaac Stern, Vadim Repin, Gidon Kremer and Leila Josefowicz once used a Guarneri in their concerts
Indeed, a guitar with 12 masts and 72 strings no less. It was created in 2007 by Japanese artist Yoshihiko Satoh at a Tokyo exhibition called present arms and Glory arms. It is a fully functional instrument. Of course, maybe touching it takes more than one person
-CONTRABAJO BALALAICA:
The inventor of this ... curious instrument was a German gesture of the seventeenth century, Athanasius Kircher (the original name was Katzenklavier). Johann Cristian Reil described it as eight cats arranged in a row with tails pressed behind them. A keyboard is placed in front of the tails and each of the active keys in the hit that hits one of the tails of the cats, which produce the sound. Fortunately, no one is known who has ever built the cat piano.
-FLUBA:
Like its name, this instrument is a mixture of flugelhorn and tuba. Specifically, it is a tubercle-sized flugelhorn. The inventor is Jim Self (pictured) with the help of Robb Stewart.
-ARMONICA DE VIDRIO O HIDROCRISTALÓFONO:
Este instrumento fue inventado por el político estadunidense Benjamin Franklin en 1762, después de ver en Cambridge (Inglaterra) un concierto de copas de vino llenas de agua tocadas por el inglés Edward Delaval (1729 - 1814) .La armónica de cristal en una serie Los platos o los bordes de cristal de diversos tamaños superpuestos y alineados horizontalmente, atravesados por un eje conectados por un pedal que hace girar mientras que toca, a la manera de una vieja máquina de coser.Se toca mojando los dedos ligeramente y tocando Los platos mientras giran, lo que producen un sonido cristalino. Actualmente tiene un registro de cuatro octavas. Compositores como Mozart o Beethoven ha escrito piezas para este instrumento.
