Instant Thumb Piano: How to make a set screw lamellaphone

Step 6 Body and Tine

The grounding bar mounted on a small wood crate from a thrift store.
This demonstrates what is great about this method - you can use tines with a variety of shapes, sizes and materials at the same time.

Tines shown in the photo below the video from left to right:
blue tempered spring steel
hairpin
street sweeper bristle
unknown steel lattice debris
electrician's snake
knitting needle
street sweeper bristle
bicycle spoke
spring steel
umbrella rib
plastic hobby/craft brush
plain steel wire - the end splayed by hammering

There is a video of this thumb piano being played.

Very roughly tuned and I used a guitar tuner pickup to run signal into a delay and guitar amp. Normally I would put the pickup closer to the bar but I was using a rubber band to hold it in place so where I placed it suited the size of the rubber band. The audio is just what the little point & shoot camera microphone was able to catch.

Comments

[amplex]

awesome sounds, i love the creative tines and the difference in tones you get from them, im definitely going to build one of these asap!!!!