Amazing, I'm sure your thesis is one of those rare interesting paper to read. Hope you don't mind if asking but how exactly do you do that? It's not really clear/visible from the video. Are using your finger too, and bowing in a particular position over the bar and/or bow angle?
Thank you for the kind words! Sure, I'll do my best. Have you ever been on the lafavre site? I learnt alot about this from that site. Basically the marimba has more than one note tuned in each bar, it has the fundamental which is placed in the middle, a double octave a few cm from the middle on both sides and a major third three octaves above the fundamental, this one tuned even further out and in the middle. By knowing this you can manipulate what you allow to vibrate. So in this example with the double ocatve I try to first show the fundamental and then by adding a finger (or a mallet, most things work) in the middle I can "block" the fundamental which makes the octave feel like a fundamental. I haven't been able to get this to work with the major third and bow but I'd say it's rather easy to get the third with mallets. All you have to do is place two mallets on the bar, each mallet aproximately between the middle of the bar and where the string passes and then strike the middle. It is a bit out of tune (they tend to tune the octaves differently for a reason I never understood), which can make for some cool sounds! Hope this cleared it up a bit and if you have any more questions I'd be happy to answer them, or at least try. I also want to apologize for my spelling, english is not my natvie tounge and since I'm in a bit of a hurry I don't have time to spell check.
Thank you Viktor, it's very clear now (there's always something to learn). It's very interesting, and of corse it would take a while to develop a fast technique for rapid results, as in a composition. But it's encouraging. I've found the lafavre website also, and I'll get deep into that soon, looks like there're lots of information there. That will probably gest to the physic of wood/bar/construction which is also most definitely fundamental. Thank you again, and sure I'll follow your next videos if you'll post new materials. Thanks again! Best
You're welcome! There is probably going to be a while if ever I post another marimba video, some things didn't work out right so I'm not playing much anymore. I hope I will in the future, but I guess time will tell.
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Amazing, I'm sure your thesis is one of those rare interesting paper to read.
Hope you don't mind if asking but how exactly do you do that? It's not really clear/visible from the video. Are using your finger too, and bowing in a particular position over the bar and/or bow angle?
Thank you for the kind words!
Sure, I'll do my best. Have you ever been on the lafavre site? I learnt alot about this from that site. Basically the marimba has more than one note tuned in each bar, it has the fundamental which is placed in the middle, a double octave a few cm from the middle on both sides and a major third three octaves above the fundamental, this one tuned even further out and in the middle. By knowing this you can manipulate what you allow to vibrate. So in this example with the double ocatve I try to first show the fundamental and then by adding a finger (or a mallet, most things work) in the middle I can "block" the fundamental which makes the octave feel like a fundamental. I haven't been able to get this to work with the major third and bow but I'd say it's rather easy to get the third with mallets. All you have to do is place two mallets on the bar, each mallet aproximately between the middle of the bar and where the string passes and then strike the middle. It is a bit out of tune (they tend to tune the octaves differently for a reason I never understood), which can make for some cool sounds!
Hope this cleared it up a bit and if you have any more questions I'd be happy to answer them, or at least try. I also want to apologize for my spelling, english is not my natvie tounge and since I'm in a bit of a hurry I don't have time to spell check.
Thank you Viktor, it's very clear now (there's always something to learn). It's very interesting, and of corse it would take a while to develop a fast technique for rapid results, as in a composition. But it's encouraging.
I've found the lafavre website also, and I'll get deep into that soon, looks like there're lots of information there. That will probably gest to the physic of wood/bar/construction which is also most definitely fundamental.
Thank you again, and sure I'll follow your next videos if you'll post new materials. Thanks again! Best
You're welcome!
There is probably going to be a while if ever I post another marimba video, some things didn't work out right so I'm not playing much anymore. I hope I will in the future, but I guess time will tell.