Steel Tongue Drum 

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Try tuning your guitar with an angle grinder next time. 🙂

Guitars can only be tuned with a reciprocal saw. You’re welcome. 🦋🦋🦋

the smell is to much, very bad, oh god the old lady wanted to kill me. buy a new tank, or check out some of my drums, Hand hammered, no tanks !

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Because of the way this instrument works anything that puts tension on the shell will dampen the sound (or at least in my experimenting it has). So I can only assume that hanging it from loops on the shell would dampen the resonating chamber. However I have not tried that so do not know for sure. It is pretty much a sit and play instrument. They do strange things compared to a regular drum too, If you set it on a hard surface it dampens and doesn't sound good ,I thought this was due to the opening in the bottom being covered, but when I set one on a carpeted floor or the couch (still covering the opening) they sound fine, weird huh. Still even not being able to carry and play I recommend making one to play they are extremely fun.

Jose Antonio Casas The diameter is unimportant. Make 8 same size figures. Cut the top 1\3 of each. Then pick one and begin cutting the slots down and checking it till you have a C (you want this to be a high octave to start from) the longer the slots the lower the note will be. I use an app on my phone to tune with. Once you get the first note pick one next to it and tune the next lower note. I alternate across the first note making playing it very easy. With that bit of an explanation and the video you should be able to do it. Just be careful when cutting the tank.

How did you go? I take it that you have tracked down propane tank.

@@gorillaau Actually, I bought 4 tanks, but living at 7,600ft up in the mountains, I've been using them as propane tanks. I do walk by them and tap on them, and the pitch tells me how full they are.

@@thomasmartinscott I have used that trick myself for larger tanks, those that you can't easily rock. The smaller BBQ size one trick is to pour hot water down a side. The hot water will evaporate off the section that has no liquid gas, leaving a clear line of the liquid gas inside. Caveat: I think LPG as we have is the same.

The pattern of tuning has little to no effect. I settled on the pattern I used because it is intuitive to use (the notes switch between hands consecutively). But yes longer slots = lower notes and thinner tongues = higher notes.

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I have Done one with 12 around the outside plus the one in the middle and tuned it to a chromatic scale. I found it difficult to play, but I am not a musician by any stretch. It would become easier if I played it more and memorized the layout. It was an earlier attempt so the layout of the notes was not as intuitive as the versions I currently make. My favorite ones so far have been scaled for Blues (C major, G major, F major) they sound radical. I have done several in different pentatonic scales as well including a 2 octave version. I will probably play around a bit more with a Chromatic version and use the layout method I am using now to see if it makes it easier to play. Thanks for watching and for the comment/question.