Bamboo Boomwhackers

Father and son improvisations on simple home made bamboo instruments on the Island of Hawaii, Christmas 1996.

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I ruined at least a hundred feet of bamboo experimenting with various jigsaw cuts to produce sound. And now 13 years later am still messing with it. Some are open ended. Others are closed at both ends. There is a definite correlation between length, wall thickness and inner diameter of the bamboo tube.

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