How We Built A (Practical) Marimba During Quarantine! 

HI. I'm building a marimba but there may be a future project to do a giant one in a park. do you have any info you can share. thanks in advance

Rosewood is harder than oak

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We didn’t keep exact track, but about $1,000 was our estimate. Thanks for watching!

For our practical build, we used oak wood. For a concert marimba, padouk and synthetic wood are some examples of cost-effective alternatives to rosewood. Hope this helps!

@@kaitlynz2582 yes it does! TKS... The thing is that kind of wood at least in argentina it's expensive...hehe but that's a good replacement! TKS for taking time to answer!

I have built a couple of marimbas with my son. The first one had construction lumber frame and used pine keys and they were cheaper and more resonant than the red oak we had. The second one had padauk keys and a mahogany frame and sounded much better. For the posts, we 3D printed the pegs and it was quite inexpensive. Try different species of wood and build a key or two to see which one sounds better.

i don’t know if you would need super dense wood or a balance. for specific wood you probably would need to mill it yourself. north american hard woods that are super hard: osage orange sugar maple white oak hornbeam dogwood pretty hard: red oak elm hickory ash sycamore medium hardness: silver maple walnut norway maple cherry soft hardwood (i would assume avoid) poplar basswood cottonwood boxelder just a quick list. nice tackle! resonators are a trick too! they are sized to each note! it would be interesting to know what would work. at a diy store there are different gauges and materials of pipe. pvc, galvanized, black…

Aquí en Guatemala, dónde se inventó la marimba doble se usa la madera más dura, aquí se llama madera de hormigo, no sé cuál sea el nombre en inglés.

The chart in the link says the biggest size is over 1.5” This really sucks because that’s bigger than nominal 2” wood. So that will make the price of the wood very expensive

It’s in the description. Duhh. She says it in the beginning

There are companies that do sell aftermarket frames. TITAN is a really good example.