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10-16-2011, 09:17 AM
|  | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | |  Rain Stick?
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Just goofing here - maybe - but has anyone ever made a rain stick?
We're working up playing a Kenny Rodger's song: 'Lady' and think it would fit nicely into our mix. |
10-16-2011, 09:19 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | No, but a drummer bud made a funky digeridoo out of PVC pipe. Works pretty well, too. Subbed/bump
Edit: This may belong in *miscelleneous* as it's music-related. 
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10-16-2011, 09:53 AM
| | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | | Yeah --- on second thought maybe I put it in the wrong area. But that will eventually get a dual-posting for more eyes-on.
Anyway, I'm thinking I need to put some sort of 'cascade' device in it to keep the BBs from just unceremoniously dumping into the other end. Sorta like a ladder or a series of steps?
Gotta get a hint.
Has anyone ever taken a commercial rain stick apart for some insight? |
10-16-2011, 02:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Wichita, KS | | Quote:
Originally Posted by SurferJoe46 Yeah --- on second thought maybe I put it in the wrong area. But that will eventually get a dual-posting for more eyes-on.
Anyway, I'm thinking I need to put some sort of 'cascade' device in it to keep the BBs from just unceremoniously dumping into the other end. Sorta like a ladder or a series of steps?
Gotta get a hint.
Has anyone ever taken a commercial rain stick apart for some insight? | I always assumed they were full of layers of mesh screen with holes just a bit bigger than the sand being used, but now I'm curious...
... and it turns out I was wrong, but did have the basic idea right:  How to Make a Rainstick
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10-16-2011, 04:50 PM
| | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | | OOoooh! OOOOooooohhhh!
Got it and I'm off the the workshop!
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10-16-2011, 08:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Seattle, WA | | | Call me crazy, but I think it would be easier to just go to Target and buy a rain stick lol. |
10-16-2011, 08:34 PM
| | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | | Nah - it's always more exciting to build your own stuff. Even simple things give great pleasure to me - especially when Target is over 60 miles away on twisted mountain roads. |
10-16-2011, 10:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | | Hi.
The commercially made one I have uses separators not much unlike the round "wagon wheel"-like plastic pads that are used to fix insulation sheets onto surfaces when nails or screws are used.
The added benefit in this case is obviously that the static elecricity build-up between the plastic materials (the granules are plastic as well) slows down the stream so the effect is more rain-like and less like a water tap.
If I was making one from scratch from natural materials, I'd start with finer "mesh" than the one in the pic baalroo posted.
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Sam |
10-16-2011, 10:31 PM
| | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | | I've almost got mine done.
Not pretty in the eyes of anyone but it's mother - but it sounds great!
I took some 2" Sched 40 PVC, two 2" PVC caps and a lot of plastic clothes hangers that I cut the straight parts offa and then drilled a bunch-o holes and stuck the pieces of hanger into it and poured in about 1/2 lb of BBs and it's all pretty good so far.
Gotta heat-seal or plastic weld the small ends sticking outta the tube tomorrow - but that's a minor thing.
Pixs later. |
10-16-2011, 11:12 PM
| | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | | Pics, schmics. Soundclips!
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10-17-2011, 07:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassteban No, but a drummer bud made a funky digeridoo out of PVC pipe. | I have too. a few years ago. In effort to help with my sleep apnea...circular breathing supposedly strengthens the soft pallette membrane.
I haven't quite gotten the knack of it, but I'm working on it...
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10-17-2011, 08:13 AM
| | Tuxedo BassŪ - That's Me! | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Hamilton, Montana | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hover I have too. a few years ago. In effort to help with my sleep apnea...circular breathing supposedly strengthens the soft pallette (sic) membrane.
I haven't quite gotten the knack of it, but I'm working on it... | I know that circular breathing is a good technique for apnea and also for COPD . My doc suggested a wind instrument and since my wife totally forbids my trombone - I took up harmonicas again after a 40+ year layoff.
It really helps.
I dunnow - trombone or wife. <sigh> Gonna miss that woman. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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