A long, long time ago....
I really can still remember...
The day...
The Marimba....
Came apart...
The moral of this story is that marimbas come apart. This is the safest way to transport a marimba and can help you make basic repairs. This is a general guideline for how to take it apart.
- Take off the keys!
- Loosen the end ropes first!
- Take of the chromatic keys followed by the other keys.
- Work from the outside in!
- There are outside rails first
- Followed by the interlocking metal piece in the middle (allows you to keep going)
- Then the pipes (these break apart in sections)
- Finally the middle piece (this and end rails usually fold)
- Lastly you can take apart the stand (usually breaking into two pieces)
Here is a video of Dr. Lynn Vartan putting together and taking apart a marimba with her students.
And here are some pictures of our adventure!
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