Lithophone - Agate Music
![]() | Sawing |
![]() | Brazing |
![]() | Drilling |
![]() | Laughing |
And the result is... a new lithophone (after the big one built for Magma).
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The sounding stones are made of agate. The "mallets" (picture below) come in two types: hard (hematite chunks) and soft (orange calcite). I acquired all the stones last summer at the Harvard Natural History Museum, a few hours before my plane flew from Boston to France. We built the instrument between August 20th and 22nd, 2007.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiISyjlBzEoAp1T7PLEKFJX88ZbOfa1sw821o2CtRJING7zJFxJ2O9eamXQC4JDqxh5RxikzleraMt7fOVcmTA11KLCp3yZN6aDio9RwczCEG3pTITDSJdWhpf-7l3OpbLwTRC_ktGxXynj/s320/sticks.jpg)
Many thanks to:
- my father for his invaluable help
- my mother for the assistance beyond the making of the lithophone
- Suzanne and Freddy for their incredible reactivity
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