This week we made instuments. We had Phil Dadson come in and show us a variety of his own instruments that he'd made, then he showed some videos of other people who had also made their own instuments. We were given a group had the week to make our own instuments before giving a performance with them on Friday.
I was inspired by one of the clips where a woman was playing an strument she'd made out of springs and tin cans. I wanted to use springs in mine but wasn't sure how as I found it hard to understand how the instuments worked. After talking with Zoe I decided I would put the springs on a stainless steel bowl. I found this really cool bowl at look sharp, I wsn't sure if it was actually steel or not but it had this really long and kind of wonky resonance.
When I later talked to Phil Dadson, who was doing this weeks project. He wasn't sure how to stick the springs to the bowl and suggested that I use threaded rods instead. I also liked this idea because out of all his instruments I liked his version of this the best. His was two steel bowls stuck togeather with steel rods, both threaded and untheaded bolted on. In the end I used three threaded rods and three springs, I used washers to hold the springs onto the bowl.
If there was anything I would change it would probable be that in a performance I used a peizo, because my largest spring had this long resonating ding when hit but it was quite quiet and you couldn't hear it over the other instruments. I also might have made the others springs wider, because they were almost the same thickness and sounded most smiler.
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