Tongue Drum

Cristiana Felgueiras

Published Aug 31, 2018

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Description

One of the most exciting and fun projects I've built to date! This turned out to be a great musical instrument and with some patience during the tuning process, I'm sure you can achieve just as beautiful sounding instrument as I did. Let's play!

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Specs

Material: Bubinga

License

Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)

Instructions

Follow the steps on the video

For all the details and process of building and tuning this drum, take a look on this video! Also, you can find further instructions and thoughts on this Patreon post https://www.patreon.com/posts/19906814

Comments

Going to make this Drum. I' m worried about tuning -and doing your project justice. Cant wait. You are a great craftsman and artist. You inspire me. Daniel Hirsch

Daniel Hirsch · November 25, 2018

very nice. good projects for grand kids and me!

Michael Hursh · January 20, 2019

What was the tuning program you used on the Macintosh?

Chris Goodman, Sr. · February 25, 2019

Hi Chris, I used the tuner that comes with GarageBand. Now I’m not near the mac but I think it is under Window menu at the top. It opens as a pop up and as long as the built in mic is on, it works.

Cristiana Felgueiras · February 26, 2019

I love it! especially because I do percussion and marimba!

garrett effley · December 04, 2019

Easel shows it being 10 by 4. What is the actual size?

garrett effley · December 04, 2019

Hi Garrett, the top is 59 x 20 cm. You can set Easel to show MM instead of IN if you prefer.

Cristiana Felgueiras · December 04, 2019

This is beuatiful! Really High quality craftsmanship! I want to make one and love the size in the video. Can you tell us the overall dimensions? (L x W x H).

Jeff Jones · December 17, 2019

Did you cut a hole in the side of the box? I can't tell from the video.

pltwjulianPro · December 27, 2020

I've noticed that there are only ten tongues. Do you know of a version that has twelve tongues (full chromatic scale in major or minor key) or an alternative . Thanks. BTW It sounds great. Love to hear it with a Fishmans piezo pickup stuck inside. WcW

crateinteractive · July 12, 2021

Love your work. Everything you do is so clean. Keep makin'

Willie FieldsPro · January 06, 2022

Great project! Very fun! Thanks for posting. I made one for my mom. Looks great.

Joel DemantPro · April 12, 2023

what is the height of the box? and is there a sound hole? if so what diameter would that be? i assume all of those factors would effect the tone

Patrick J. Noel · May 18, 2023