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Old 06-29-2018, 04:34 PM
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Originally Posted by cliffrod View Post
Very cool. Welcome to the forum, Colin.



I am curious- have you experimented with deliberate annealing, work hardening or even heat treating, especially with instruments that would be played with something harder than the flesh of the hand, to alter the duration of vibrations & length of sound? I'm thinking more like finger picks or thimbles worn on fingers, not drumsticks or the like.

To answer your query - and avoiding thread theft ...

Gong straightedge, beat deep.jpg
Had a dented bronze gong ...
Gong anneal.jpg
In order to shrink the dent, I had to anneal the thing.
rkw APH gong sm. copy.jpg
New problem: after shrinking gong now "thwunks" instead of gonging.
Have to hammer the annealed area to work harden it, to get the ring back.
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