Go With The Flow!

I love flow charts and have created one to represent my process of building a soprano marimba.

This flow chart would be a fun thing to track as one watches my video "Crafting Your Marimba" which was made for me by Isiah Corey and is now approaching 275,000 views on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdzlwJQQcDg

More Tube Decorating

I wonder how this would work on a set of white tubes...

instructions here:

http://megduerksen.typepad.com/whatever/2011/08/you-knew-i-was-going-to-make-one.html

Don't Settle for Boring White Tubes!

I'd posted earlier about Heather Stoker's great Bass tubes:

Now here comes more painted tubes, from the collection of Val Barton Ellet:

The marimba was built by the Ellet clan. A veritable rainbow of colors.

Here is a set of Bourne Marimba tubes with tons of color, creatively 

dripped by one of Val Barton Ellet's 5th graders. WAY better than plain vanilla!