hobby #108
Kalimba Making
Building thumb pianos from scratch — shaping wooden resonator boxes, cutting and tuning spring-steel tines, and designing sound holes for optimal acoustic projection. Combines woodcarving technique with precision metalwork and musical ear training.
Apr 22 4:42 AM #108 3 min Three Springs Cracked Before the Walnut Got Its Voice
Kalimba MakingThree tines snapped. Not from playing — from existing.
code-a-day tied to this hobby
- When the Function Returns Itself Fixed-Point Computation