I look at photos my daughter sends of my 7 month old grandson's new experiences at his day care. Watching your channel put 60+ me in the same wonderful place of continued learning. Thanks
Luke made guitar picks today, and now you've made some percussion... something tells me we should be expecting an FWG Christmas album!!! 😄😄😄 I'm up for that, need anyone on keyboard?
Fantastic information. I have quite a few old blow torch gas bottles that I want to hang from the tree and play tunes from. That equation has just made It! Thank you.
Mr. Murray-smith, I just L.O.V.E your channel! Just for information sake... I'm old'ish, and I dropped out of school very early in life, to take care of "that" which life had arranged for me. so having come to a spot in my life now, where I have freedom to explore, I've found that I am renewed in spirit to hunt down knowledge, and well you sir are an incredible inspiration, and a top notch guide! The way you present the projects has helped me to understand and learn things that I've struggled with in the past. From the gal posting this... "she stands up from her seat and begins with a round of 👏, she motions a gesture from the bottom of her ❤ , 👏 BRAVO my Good 👍 man, Bravo." I'm sure if I would have had just one teacher with your caliber, well I would have suffered the rest. Stay beautiful, stay inspirational, and stay on the air. P.s. this covid situation has found me loosing my 🏡 so as soon as I can get anywhere out of the cold I want to help support your channel. Thank you ever so kindly.
Somehow you always answer the questions I have in a practical way. I have made wood notes as individual lengths of wood and just cut and hit till it gets there so this is much appreciated. I have watched your electrical vids for years this is another facination I have as the music electronics make is just a one note song. I have tried generating power from my guitar pickups just for the fun of having an 18650 with music in it.
I think viewers would highly appreciate if you could turn video 180 degrees in post when there is written information. Now we all must turn our monitor and that's a quite bit harder to do. I don't mean that we can't do that, but you know what I mean. But anyways. Thank you for a good video again.
Brilliant video! This makes complete sense now, and it's something I'll likely never forget even though I don't foresee myself making any musical instruments.
I almost followed how you worked that out, but then I got lost somewhere when you said "K - ?" I thought I had understood it, but no, I must have missed something, not that it matters, I won't be ripping up my floor to make drums!
Well. This is absolutely perfect. I've been wondering what to do with my aluminum and wood, bee scratching my head pondering the perfect project. Now I have it, and this will be quite fun!
I still wonder why YT does not offer a silly easy function as 'rotate'. Many mobile phones share rotated movies, it would be handy to have a rotate function. Ah well. I did write them this in feedback several times, but I stopped doing that.
Brilliant! Except for the fact that the frequencies you used were based on "tempered" tuning which is necessary for multiple keys. In this case you're only using one key so there's no advantage to using the tempered tuning system. It will sound better and more natural if you use "mean" tuning. Whatever key you're using the desired ratio of the eight frequencies would be 16:18:20:21:24:26:30:32. The sizes of the tongues should be around the same ratios as well.
@Desmond Bagley Actually no, mean tuning refers to aligning everything to one note and as long as you play in only that key it sounds glorious but other keys, to various degrees, don't sound right. With tempered tuning everything is slightly but equally out of tune relative to mean tuning and was adopted to allow for playing in more than one key. Fretless stringed instruments and wind instruments allow the player to find the sweet spot for each note in any key whereas the piano or other essentially fixed tuning instruments the tempered tuning system is needed to allow for multiple keys. The tongue drum will be in only one key so no tempering is needed, mean tuning is ideal for that instrument.
So, you made a very difficult task, easy. Thank you. I do have a couple questions, but I think I will watch the other videos first to see if you answer them. Back with my questions and a comment. I was first going to ask where do I measure the length from. At first I was thinking the entire length of the wood. Then I thought, ok to the rabbet. Then was it the front edge or the back edge of the rabbet? Then my final thought was, to the front edge of the mount bracket to the end of the tongue. Now my thought is, does it really matter, as long as they are all in scale. The difference as you would say it, is a note or a sound. If the note or the sound are in scale with each other you created a scale. Then you can tune them to notes. So if I take off the wood of the tongue, lets say I take it off the end. How much of a gap between tongues do I start effecting the sound box or echo chamber? Yes I know I could take off the bottom, just thinking outside the box and wondering when the echo chamber starts effecting the other tongues as well. Knowing that more vibrating air escaping at a different rate is going to have effects on the other tongues as well. Or does it? What are the different effects if I were to make my rabbets wider or deeper? If I made my Rabbet depth the set depth, but to tune to a note, if I took off a millimeter of the bottom or off the leading or back edge, of that rabbet, would there be a difference? OK, I know I could do these test myself, but I thought with your SIMPLE scientific approach and SIMPLE way of making me, an idiot, understand it, you could make others think outside the box even more. I am on my way to see what else I can learn from you. Great job.
The funny thing is I have been searching and listening to a lot of tongue drums on RUclips lately, so when I saw this video, at first i thought it was my recommendations until I looked at the Channel name ... lol
Very awesome. Math was always my weakest or should I say held the least interest. Here I am much older wishing I had someone early on inspire me regarding mathematics. Now that I am much older I am now fascinated by it and realize it is the basis of pretty much everything in the universe.
Does anyone know if this works with wind type instruments as well? I've frequently thought about making a set of pan pipes but never knew where to begin.
Would be useful to invert the video for viewers to read. Is it me but I could not hear any ‘notes’ when he was hitting the metal? It all sounded the same. Maybe the tongues should be isolated from each other as they are resonating the others?
sorry to be a pain, but, when you do formulas, could you help out us dyslexics and ~while i wont urge changing from white paper and neatening up your handwriting~ could you at least have it the right way up? :)
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Every day, I do mean every day is a learning day with you Bob. Fantastic! thank you.
I look at photos my daughter sends of my 7 month old grandson's new experiences at his day care. Watching your channel put 60+ me in the same wonderful place of continued learning. Thanks
This is Awesome! Why was this not taught in School hahaha! ;)
Luke made guitar picks today, and now you've made some percussion... something tells me we should be expecting an FWG Christmas album!!! 😄😄😄 I'm up for that, need anyone on keyboard?
Fantastic information.
I have quite a few old blow torch gas bottles that I want to hang from the tree and play tunes from. That equation has just made
It!
Thank you.
Mr. Murray-smith, I just L.O.V.E your channel! Just for information sake... I'm old'ish, and I dropped out of school very early in life, to take care of "that" which life had arranged for me. so having come to a spot in my life now, where I have freedom to explore, I've found that I am renewed in spirit to hunt down knowledge, and well you sir are an incredible inspiration, and a top notch guide! The way you present the projects has helped me to understand and learn things that I've struggled with in the past. From the gal posting this... "she stands up from her seat and begins with a round of 👏, she motions a gesture from the bottom of her ❤ , 👏 BRAVO my Good 👍 man, Bravo." I'm sure if I would have had just one teacher with your caliber, well I would have suffered the rest. Stay beautiful, stay inspirational, and stay on the air. P.s. this covid situation has found me loosing my 🏡 so as soon as I can get anywhere out of the cold I want to help support your channel. Thank you ever so kindly.
Somehow you always answer the questions I have in a practical way. I have made wood notes as individual lengths of wood and just cut and hit till it gets there so this is much appreciated. I have watched your electrical vids for years this is another facination I have as the music electronics make is just a one note song. I have tried generating power from my guitar pickups just for the fun of having an 18650 with music in it.
I think viewers would highly appreciate if you could turn video 180 degrees in post when there is written information. Now we all must turn our monitor and that's a quite bit harder to do. I don't mean that we can't do that, but you know what I mean. But anyways. Thank you for a good video again.
Brilliant video! This makes complete sense now, and it's something I'll likely never forget even though I don't foresee myself making any musical instruments.
yes, Thank You very much - been wanting to make some chimes n bells
I almost followed how you worked that out, but then I got lost somewhere when you said "K - ?" I thought I had understood it, but no, I must have missed something, not that it matters, I won't be ripping up my floor to make drums!
Well. This is absolutely perfect. I've been wondering what to do with my aluminum and wood, bee scratching my head pondering the perfect project. Now I have it, and this will be quite fun!
Awesome mate, I have a friend who makes temple drums from old gas bottles. Maybe you could do somthing similar with stuff you have lying around.
would love to see you show how to make a perfect pitch Hand Pan drum from scratch, now that would be cool!
Awesome info. I’ve been wanting to make a music box but didn’t want to put in the time to figure this part of it out. Thanks Rob!
You just helped me out big time on my pipe piano.
I found this video very interesting, many thanks Robert.
Mind blown. Thank you.
Super helpful! Thank you!
Cool! I've been thinking about making one of those PVC xylophones. This answers a lot of questions.
Thanks for the formula.
I still wonder why YT does not offer a silly easy function as 'rotate'. Many mobile phones share rotated movies, it would be handy to have a rotate function. Ah well. I did write them this in feedback several times, but I stopped doing that.
I have dyslexia so reading upside down is easy.
Nice one Rob you just sent my brain into melt down, not 2 good with numbers but loved it just the same. Will do more math's.
Smashing Robert - thanks 😊 👍
Brilliant! Except for the fact that the frequencies you used were based on "tempered" tuning which is necessary for multiple keys. In this case you're only using one key so there's no advantage to using the tempered tuning system. It will sound better and more natural if you use "mean" tuning. Whatever key you're using the desired ratio of the eight frequencies would be 16:18:20:21:24:26:30:32. The sizes of the tongues should be around the same ratios as well.
@Desmond Bagley Actually no, mean tuning refers to aligning everything to one note and as long as you play in only that key it sounds glorious but other keys, to various degrees, don't sound right. With tempered tuning everything is slightly but equally out of tune relative to mean tuning and was adopted to allow for playing in more than one key. Fretless stringed instruments and wind instruments allow the player to find the sweet spot for each note in any key whereas the piano or other essentially fixed tuning instruments the tempered tuning system is needed to allow for multiple keys. The tongue drum will be in only one key so no tempering is needed, mean tuning is ideal for that instrument.
So, you made a very difficult task, easy. Thank you. I do have a couple questions, but I think I will watch the other videos first to see if you answer them.
Back with my questions and a comment. I was first going to ask where do I measure the length from. At first I was thinking the entire length of the wood. Then I thought, ok to the rabbet. Then was it the front edge or the back edge of the rabbet? Then my final thought was, to the front edge of the mount bracket to the end of the tongue. Now my thought is, does it really matter, as long as they are all in scale. The difference as you would say it, is a note or a sound. If the note or the sound are in scale with each other you created a scale. Then you can tune them to notes.
So if I take off the wood of the tongue, lets say I take it off the end. How much of a gap between tongues do I start effecting the sound box or echo chamber? Yes I know I could take off the bottom, just thinking outside the box and wondering when the echo chamber starts effecting the other tongues as well. Knowing that more vibrating air escaping at a different rate is going to have effects on the other tongues as well. Or does it?
What are the different effects if I were to make my rabbets wider or deeper? If I made my Rabbet depth the set depth, but to tune to a note, if I took off a millimeter of the bottom or off the leading or back edge, of that rabbet, would there be a difference?
OK, I know I could do these test myself, but I thought with your SIMPLE scientific approach and SIMPLE way of making me, an idiot, understand it, you could make others think outside the box even more.
I am on my way to see what else I can learn from you. Great job.
The funny thing is I have been searching and listening to a lot of tongue drums on RUclips lately, so when I saw this video, at first i thought it was my recommendations until I looked at the Channel name ... lol
Excellent theory into action.
Very awesome. Math was always my weakest or should I say held the least interest. Here I am much older wishing I had someone early on inspire me regarding mathematics. Now that I am much older I am now fascinated by it and realize it is the basis of pretty much everything in the universe.
I think you should do a parachute jump for the next video.
Notice that the frequency of a note is half the frequency of the same note an octave above?
dude, youre Awesome. Thank you thaNk you thank you !
Awesome !!!!!
Does anyone know if this works with wind type instruments as well? I've frequently thought about making a set of pan pipes but never knew where to begin.
What's the ingredients for solar ink
Now to learn how to play the music! lol
Would be useful to invert the video for viewers to read. Is it me but I could not hear any ‘notes’ when he was hitting the metal? It all sounded the same. Maybe the tongues should be isolated from each other as they are resonating the others?
big vibes
sorry to be a pain, but, when you do formulas, could you help out us dyslexics and ~while i wont urge changing from white paper and neatening up your handwriting~ could you at least have it the right way up? :)