The semester's winding down so its one final push to get all the pieces done for Monday's critique at the unholiest of exam times, 7:40 in the morning. Here's some pictures of the current state of things:
The kalimba looked like this when I went to go work in the studio at 3:00 and after some funky soldering setups later...
I had these at 9:00 when I decided I couldn't take it anymore and left:
Now Veronica, you may be asking, what's with this boring picture of mostly wire? there's nothing going on in it! To which I say oh ho! you are wrong for there is a metric ton of stuff going in in this picture! Let me articulate you for my master plan! Tomorrow I will:
- Get up at 8:00 (optimistically).
- Actually get up at 9:00, maybe.
- Get breakfast and got to the store for hydrogen peroxide.
- go to the studio and begin stringing the asteroids on to the necklace, bending the now hardened wires, cleaning, and correcting drill holes as I go.
- soldering the end cap asteroids on to the wires, then preparing a solution of hydrogen peroxide and pickle to take off the copper plating our regular pickle always leaves behind. (Remember no steel in the pickle, kids!)
- Then I will keep hammering my piece of steel music wire flat and eventually cut it to make keys for the kalimba.
- The kalimba itself needs a lot of clean up still to make it nice, shiny, and excess solder free.
- Attach the keys and adjust them so they are sort of in tune.
- Go home.
So there's a lot to get done tomorrow not to mention yet another final paper to worry about, so I shall now leave you with this thought: kalimbas are also called finger pianos and I've unintentionally made mine in the shape of a grand piano. Irony.
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