Concert Marimba
Listen to the Concert Marimba: Range Samples – Playing Around – Playing Around 2
The 4-Octave concert marimba has a solid oak frame and fiber resonator tubes that amplify each individual bar. The bars are made from padauk, a resonant African hardwood.
It forms a complete 4-octave chromatic scale with 49 bars and features 2″ bars and resonator tubes at the bass end, graduating up to 1- 3/8″ bars at the treble end. It also features folding legs and detachable resonator tubes, for ease in transporting and storage.
Low note is the C one octave below middle C.
I believe marimba mallets are a personal preference and I do not include mallets with the marimbas.
Dimensions: 30″w x 60″l x 34″h.
Price: $849
Hey, I saw your instruments on ebay.
Your marimbas look wonderful. I have to say though I am sure you can get a better recording than that, the recording you have is all the plink of the mallet and hardly any resonance, I would attempt a different mic placement. I’m sure if you had a better, more full bodied recording you would sell even more than you already do.
-eric
Thanks Eric – fully agree. The microphone and studio we did the recordings in was not up to snuff for capturing the range. The mallets were also not a high quality mallet – we wanted to get audio up on the site quickly. We’re looking to add recordings going forward.
We would love to add real-world customer recordings. We’ll give props and a link for anyone interested…
hey ship one my way and I’ll give you perfect beautiful marimba recordings from my studio! Fair trade? pleasesayyespleasesayyes!
I own one of these marimbas and love it. The padauk makes a great xylophone tone in the higher ranges. The resonance in the lower ranges is quite good. I’ve played a padauk marimba with wider bars in a five octave range at Century Mallets in Chicago, the old Deagan factory, and it sounded pretty much the same as the Heartsong marimba I have in my studio, only it had an extra octave. I’d like to see Heartsong try a five octave version, though I know that tuning below C3 is a b-witch. It might be easier with padauk than rosewood, though.
I also wonder if Heartsong might consider doing a vibraphone. It could be cool.
Cheers,
Dave
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