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Old 10-07-2009, 07:23 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by AwwSugar View Post
A marimba? Out of tune? I don't know what you're talking about.

The sound is beautiful, though.

And we transported it by truck.
They sound sharp when the weather is too hot and flat when the weather is too cold. Because the sound is produced by moving air through the resonators. The speed at which this air is moved is the speed of sound, which varies with temperature (v = 331m/s + 0.6m/s/C * T)...didn't mean to get really technical but when playing outside in the winter time (freezing cold!) they had us put little heaters under the marimbas for this very reason.
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