Plans To Make Or Build A Three Octave Marimba

Download Marimba, Xylophone, Vibraphone & Glockenspiel Building guides and detailed blueprints. Includes Video instructions $9.95 $27 $39.95 $49.95 $64.95 Building Your Own Marimbas, Xylophones & Vibraphones is Easy & Fun - and You are Saving Heaps of Cash! Got Questions?
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Contact me right now with Voice Call Text Chat Yes, even YOU can make these exact instruments in a snap with these Step By Step plans and video instructions - and it's much easier than you might think! Imagine... You have a whole range of professional mallet instruments... the musicians are fascinated and you STILL have budget to spare! If any of these apply to you, then read more..... You are a percussion student or a parent of a percussion student, and you are looking for an inexpensive practice instrument for the home You are looking for a really fun project to build which will be a real talking pont and source of joy for years to come. You are looking for a serious instrument, not a toy, but you simply can't afford a full concert instrument Are looking for an inexpensive way to get Instruments for Schools for classroom percussion ensembles You are you looking for an instrument that will suit a student right through their high school years, even for music exams Then read further to learn about the solutions offered on this page.....   So easy an 8 year old boy can build one!
This photo right here is of the actual instrument that 8 year old Greg built. Dear Friend, Have you ever looked at Marimbas or Xylophones in the music stores and wondered… "……How on earth can these instruments cost so much?" because after all… they are just planks of wood siting on a frame, with resonating tubes to amplify the sound. and the last time I checked, the best price I could find of a student model three octave marimba was $2750 (USD) - There may of course be cheaper ones, but to get a reasonable concert instrument will cost upwards of $5000. Furthermore, even for a small box resonated xylophone you can pay upwards of $400 for a good quality instrument.. and schools need to buy full class sets of them... but not all students or parents have this kind of money... even schools prefer to spend it elsewhere... That's why I’ve created this solution for You... Firstly, Check Out my Super Fast "Making a Marimba Video"  
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The background music for this video was played on the Project 3 prototype instrument built in this video.  
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Contact me right now with Voice Call Text Chat Firstly, let me introduce myself. My name is Jim McCarthy, and I’ve been a percussionist for over 20 years. I’ve always had a passion for building things, but I’d never consider myself a professional at woodworking or trades… I’ve always been a musician first. and this means that if I can build this project... You can easily do it as well. You don't need to do any of the design, thinking, hard work and making mistakes - I've already done all that for you! When I studied for my masters degree I got really into Acoustics and learned all about how Marimbas were built – I even made some massive, world record bass marimbas to indulge my hobby... But these days my goals are much more practical... I design instruments especially for people like you. It started years ago when I built a few instruments to assist my wife in her school music program. You may have seen the Project 1 Box resonated Xylophone, or the Project 2 mini-marimba which people all around the world are already building to save money for their schools, as well as being interesting to play and enjoy for children. I've also built many other instruments in my time, from small xylophones to ultra large Bass Marimbas. What I've done is refined my building processes into step by step building guides for five instruments, The Simple Glockenspiel, The Box Xylophone, the Two Octave Mini Marimba, Three Octave Concert Marimba, and the Three Octave Concert Vibraphone  
      Frequently Asked Questions about Making Marimbas, Xylophones and Vibraphones… Do I need special wood or metal for the bars? The great thing about these projects is that they will work for you, no matter what wood you have available - or in the case of the vibraphone and glockenspiel they will work really well with standard metal stock which is inexpensive and easy to get hold of in most parts of the world. Concert quality marimbas are usually made from Honduras Rosewood or African padouk, and obviously the better wood you have access to the better instrument you’ll be able to make. However you can make these instruments from just about any hardwood (eg, Durian or Meranti). How much will the materials Cost? This depends on which instruments you are building, and also on where you live. All of these instruments though are designed to use nothing but inexpensive materials which are commonly available in your average hardware store. but here is a rough guide to materials cost for the various instruments. Simple Glockenspiel - $20
P1 Xylophone - $33
P2 Mini-Marimba - $250
P3 Marimba - $400
PV Vibraphone - $600 And if you wish to make a better quality instrument you can of course invest in a better quality wood, such as Rosewood. This will cost you a few hundred dollars, but will still be way less than purchasing a real concert instrument. Does the plans include both Metric and Imperial Measurements? YES! All the plans include both imperial (feet and inches) and metric (millimetres) measurements. Do I need to be good at woodworking to achieve this? Absolutely not! I’m not a carpenter - I’m a musician. Most of the skills required are fairly basic woodwork – measuring, cutting and sanding. Even if you’ve hardly ever picked up a hammer or a saw in your life I’m confident that you’ll be able to achieve a workable instrument using these plans. Of course I've picked up a few clues over my time designing and building instruments, but I've put all the important construction tips in the package for you. Do I need lots of expensive tools? Most of the tools you need are commonly available All you need is: An electric drill with a sanding attachment
A screwdriver A wood saw A small hammer Sandpaper and sanding discs
Hacksaw
Rivet Gun Plus a few other bits and pieces commonly found around the garage! Do I need any special tuning equipment? A basic electronic tuner is highly recommended. Any chromatic tuner will do the job, and you can get a really basic electronic tuner from any music store for around $50, or simply borrow one from a friend to get the job done! These tuners are incredibly common – nearly all professional musicians or music teachers either own one or have a friend who owns one. If you don’t have access to one, don’t worry – as I’ve included a full set of sine waves (clear and clean tones) that you can use to tune the notes by ear. If you have a musical ear it is really easy to do it this way. Is my homemade instrument going to sound as good as commercially available instruments? I'm not going to suggest that you can build an instrument which will sound identical to the commercially available instrument, not with basic wood that you can get from the hardware store. However - have a listen to these samples, and you'll see that there is very little difference between them! Commercially Made Instrument
(This particular one costs over $9000) The Prototype instrument constructed and photographed on this page Does it matter what the resonators are made out of? This is definitely one of the biggest areas of misunderstanding for most people. The fact is that it makes very little difference! Comercial instrument manufacturers will often TALK about the sounds of different resonator materials - they want to make their instruments seem more special - BUT have you EVER seen anybody publish an actual audio comparison? and think about it......The resonator's job is to amplify the sound – and it does this by containing a column of air which is the correct size to resonate when sound waves from the bar enter it. So... does the column of air really care what is containing it? or does it even know? Remember it’s the column of air that is vibrating.. not the container, so what it's made from really makes very little difference! and I've heard people argue that certain materials are a little harder and reflect sound better than others - well this is true... but here's the thing... Extra hard metals etc only make a difference at quite high frequencies - the frequencies way above the range of the vibraphone. Only the upper harmonics of the vibraphone are in this frequency range - and guess what... these upper harmonics are actually tuned to NOT resonate in the tubes!!! The plans included for this instrument use PVC pipe for the resonators because: They are lightweight
They are inexpensive
They are easy to work with
They don’t require heavy duty hardware to hold them in place And you can get PVC pipe at just about any hardware store, as it is usually used for drainpipes around just about any home! Of course - if you really want to use different materials for your resonators, there's absolutely nothing stopping you. The building guide still tells you how to get the result you are after. Do I have to wait for anything to be shipped to me? Absolutely not! You have instant access to the e-books and videos via download, so that you can get started immediately. The plans print out in Adobe Acrobat Reader (which nearly every computer already has installed).      ...

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