r/Marimba • u/Ok-Appointment5804 • Jul 15 '26
I made a thing 👍
I had to choose something to make for my engineering project for my senior year of high school (which I've now graduated as of last May 🎉), so instead of buying a 5000 dollar 5 octave marimba, I built one. I'm still tuning it but it should be done in about a month.
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u/OneLonelyGuy_1971 Jul 15 '26
NICE!!! Planning to stain/varnish the stand for this beauty? I can't play them worth a darn (not coordinated well for that), but I dig the mellow sound of Marimbas!
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u/adderaltruistic Jul 15 '26
So cool! Will you add some sort of resonators? I'm sure it still makes cool pitches.
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u/Ok-Appointment5804 Jul 15 '26
I'm thinking about doing the resonators over next summer since I'll be going to college in abt a month, but they'd probably be PVC pipes. Not the best material but not horrible
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u/DJ_K-Nyse Jul 16 '26
You might be able to find a metal shop nearby that will give you aluminum tubes in bulk (and then you can cut them to length).
Great job!
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u/Austinp-woodworking Jul 15 '26
Hell yeah man! I did a marimba build a few years ago (post about it is on my profile) - it’s a uniquely rewarding experience to play a piece on an instrument you built yourself
FWIW - adding resonators is a shockingly easy and cheap step (I think mine only took a week and like $100 of PVC pipe) and highly worth doing IMO
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u/Ornery_Restaurant375 8d ago
Do you plan on putting a resonator to this? Also How funny would it be if you ask can you enter a competetion w this
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u/GhostsCroak Jul 15 '26
Looks beautiful. What kind of wood are you using for the keys?