making some wind chimes and found some pieces have a nice ting and some
just sound dead

thinking moisture content might be the key but maybe there is a species
correlation

so many scraps and not sure what they are


now tuning them is another story

.....thinking moisture content might be the key but maybe there is a species
correlation....

For sure there is. Just Google "tonewood" Wiki has quite a good write up. The tuning will very according to the dimensions of each block. Coarsely tune them by cutting them to size and fine tune by planing till they sound in tune.

Cheers,

Frank


On Saturday, 9 December 2017 19:13:09 UTC, Electric Comet wrote:
making some wind chimes and found some pieces have a nice ting and some
just sound dead

thinking moisture content might be the key but maybe there is a species
correlation

so many scraps and not sure what they are


now tuning them is another story

On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 03:44:21 -0800 (PST)
Frank McVey wrote:

For sure there is. Just Google "tonewood" Wiki has quite a good
write up. The tuning will very according to the dimensions of each
block. Coarsely tune them by cutting them to size and fine tune by
planing till they sound in tune.

interesting

had not heard of it before

these are cylindrical so i will fine tune by sanding

although flat faces might be more interesting


now if they could be arranged so they play a melody somehow that
would be a plus

On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 6:59:54 PM UTC-6, Electric Comet wrote:

now if they could be arranged so they play a melody somehow that
would be a plus

Music box mechanism. Wind mill turns a cylinder with dowels sticking out. Dowels are position appropriately to hit the tone-boards for the tune.

"Fur Elise" cylinder might be easy to make. Post pics when done.

Sonny

On Monday, December 18, 2017 at 7:28:23 PM UTC-5, Sonny wrote:
On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 6:59:54 PM UTC-6, Electric Comet wrote:

now if they could be arranged so they play a melody somehow that
would be a plus

Music box mechanism. Wind mill turns a cylinder with dowels sticking out. Dowels are position appropriately to hit the tone-boards for the tune.

"Fur Elise" cylinder might be easy to make. Post pics when done.

Sonny

Don't you know that EC doesn't waste his time by posting pics? He says we should be
spending our time making stuff, not wasting it by posting pics.