Hanging tubalophone - 6 notes - Air element

Hanging tubalophone – 6 notes – Air element

As its name suggests, the Tubalophone is an instrument made up of sound tubes. These tubes, the number of which varies from 6 to 9 depending on the model, are made of metal and emit very pure and crystalline tones when they vibrate, after being struck with a mallet.

Thanks to the precise tuning of the different tubes to each other, many harmonics are created, filling the entire room with their vibrations and enveloping listeners in powerful sound waves.

This suspended model is made up of 6 metal tubes, from 32 cm for the shortest to 46 cm for the longest, connected to each other by a cord and suspended horizontally from a wooden support.

Held in the hand or attached to a hook, the instrument can be waved, slowly swayed or briskly turned, while playing the hits, in a musical choreography creating new harmonics and ever more surprising sound effects.

The range of this Hindolam model covers a full octave, from C low to C, according to the following pentatonic scale of A flat Major (adjusted to the “cosmic” pitch of A 432 Hz): C-Eb-Fa-Lab-Bb- Do.

Dimensions

? Width: 50 cm

? Height: 26 cm

? Diameter of the tubes: 1.8 cm

? Weight: 850 g

? Sold in its soft blue fabric transport case, with its gaming mallet.

Intuitive instrument par excellence, this suspended tubalophone with infinite sonic possibilities emits rich harmonics evoking haunting celestial tones!

? VIDEO DEMO OF SUSPENDED TUBALOPHONE “HINDOLAM”

Note: To fully enjoy all the rich sound of the suspended tubalophone, we recommend that you listen to these excerpts with headphones or on good living room speakers, because multimedia speakers and systems usually integrated into laptops have an unfortunate tendency to ” eat “a very large part of the low frequencies.

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