MARIMBAS
Tenor and Bass Models
MARIMBAS
Tenor and Bass Models
MARIMBAS
Tenor and Bass Models
CCBANTA Kalimba | Product Sheet
CCBANTA Kalimba | Users Guide
About
About
About
About
CCBANTA
Research and Development of Melodic
Bass and Contra-Bass Bar Percussion Systems
JUNE 2026
Current Projects
New Book Writing Project:
(in-process)
This website is going down a different direction. I am currently transferring all this experience and data into a book writing project. The attempt is to document all my bar percussion projects, processes, materials, and musical technicalities used in this lifelong endeavor.
This book is an exhaustive photo and technical opportunity that explains and presents the wonderful, tricky at times, and the never-ending romance of a really cool percussion instrument and subject.
(Heavily into the Research and Writing phase right now.)
Aiming to have it [eventually] available on Amazon.com
New Instrument:
5-Octave Marimba full chromatic instrument
Range: 5-octave (C2 to C7)
No. of Notes: 61
Bars: African Padauk - strict quarter-sawn (straight length-wise grain -and- 90-degrees perpendicular grain when board is laying flat for ultimate strength and ring time
Resonators: Baltic Birch Plywood - *Half-Wavelength: Folded Columns in the bass region.
( open at both ends)
*HALF-WAVELENGTH RESONATORS
PROs: -
(1) TWICE AS LOUD RESONANCE - Since both ends are open, the resonance projects outward from two points (rather than a single opening), which essentially makes the sound twice as loud.
(2) ALL HARMONICS - Half-wavelength has the benefit of causing ALL harmonics to ring along with its fundamental frequency which sounds more "musical."
CONS/CHALLENGES - The twice as long (over its quarter wavelength counterpart) is challenging in placing its additional length beneath its bars in the lower region of notes.
QUARTER-WAVELENGTH RESONATORS
PRO: - EASIER TO FIT UNDERNEATH THE BARS-
CONS - Because of their shorter lengths, they are easier to fit beneath the bars while the stopped end only allows for the odd harmonics to resonate along with its fundamental through the (single) open end.
