The nurses were very good and took great care with me. Every movement felt like the incision was going to rip open, but it all held together for me. I wish you all the best with your surgery!

@@riya9200 You are doing an amazing thing! I wish you both a speedy recovery!!

@@bassmjm Good day! The strings on this instrument are 1 centimetre apart. How close you can get them depends on how tight the strings are. Usually I make a test setup with a scrap piece of wood and the strings I want to use. The test would have a piece of wood the same length of the instrument and two strings with basic attachments. Tighten a string to the desired tension and aggressively pluck it. When it’s vibrating you can measure how wide it occilates. Add a millimetre or two to that measurement and that’s how close they can be. Add a second string that distance from the first and test to see if they touch. If you tighten the string it will occilate narrower, and can be put closer together, but the tone with be higher. If you increase the thickness of the string it will lower the tone at the same tension. It’s a lot of trial and error. I hope this helps! Have fun!

@@MiscellaneousMcC Understood, and that's very helpful, thank you! I was assuming it was a balance between tension, string gauge, and vibrating length. Just curious what you landed with here. What was the spacing for your larger, bed-type monochord?

@@bassmjm I believe it was 1.4cm for the bed monochord. The strings were 7 feet long.

@@MiscellaneousMcC wonderful, thanks very much! Your videos have been very helpful! Hope you've been well.

@@KimberleeCharron Have fun! Algonquin is amazing!

Thank you for your kind words! Throughout it all the one thing that kept me smiling was knowing a child was alive somewhere that wouldn't have been without the liver. I often think, and hope, that whoever it was is now living their best life.

This was the actual tone from the instrument. It was a challenge to get the tone I was looking for with the strings I had available. But in the end it was a success. I hope to make another of these in the future.

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Thank you! 😀

They are so playful. It's amazing to watch!

Stop at 720 and see the secret

Fundamentally its just a box. The larger monochords are more challenging, but not really that different than the small ones. I am unaware of any step by step walkthroughs of making one. I no longer have a shop, so it's not possible for me to do a build instructions video, but I do have two monochord still, and could do a video on how to tune them in the future. One needs new strings anyways. I advise starting with a small instrument and using guitar strings for it. That will be the least money and will be the easiest to troubleshoot if things go wrong. :)

That journal is something to cherish! Remembering the best times is so powerful when we are struggling!

It was certainly a joy to play! Everyone who laid on it while it was playing expressed how profound the experience was. One day I hope to build another one!

Are you taking orders? :D

Good day! I'm sorry I missed this comment and am responding so late. I was interested when I was still in high school, but my teacher gave me some incorrect information regarding it, and so I put it out of my mind for a number of years. Then, after watching Patch Adams one evening, I decided to look into it again and found I could donate. It all kind of took off after that, and before I knew it I was on the donation list!

What do you mean?

As far as I'm aware, the flange distance on the older RF canon mounts are much shorter than the newer, EF lenses. So it wouldn't work without modifying the lens considerably.

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Thank you so much!

After sprouting I place them individually into jiffy pods or pots with sprouting soil. This ensures that you don’t have several plants competing in the same planter. Alternatively you can just eat the sprouts. 😁

That is a distinct possibility. Thankfully the stomach pain has largely gone now. I had tried to take bike salts in an effort to reduce it, but it did little. I’m now on a more regimented diet which has helped a lot, and with addition of digestive enzymes everything seems to be back in order. I will look into the pesticide issue though, as I’ve not heard about it before! Thank you! 🙏

This is facts. You must go organic and plant-based to be fully healthy. Pesticides are the biggest disruptors of health in the world.

The compensation is only that’s which I give myself through acceptance and healing my mind and heart. It sounds airy-fairy but accepting it is what I’m left with, as I’m far past being able to seek out some kind of compensation for the injury. Thank you for watching the video, and for your support!

You are so kind! 🙏

I'm sorry for the late reply, I've been away from KZbin for a while now. There is no frame within the instrument itself, however there are two sound posts that help it keep its shape. It was very difficult to get the top penal to bend properly without the sound posts supporting it. If you can steam bend the panels it would be much easier to assemble and would likely have even better sound. If you can steam bend the top and bottom panels you won't need a frame or even sound posts. Glue should easily be strong enough to hold the panels together.

Thank you! Im glad you enjoyed the video!

The incense is in the bottom of the mushroom’s stem.

Yes, and it was incredibly uncomfortable coming out! haha

This had me confused and so I went back through my old hard drives. It looks like I was missing the planting footage from the second year and used the footage from the previous year where white potatoes were used. Kind of embarrassing that I'd forgotten that whole rigmarole. Thanks for sending me down memory lane to figure that out! -They are red the whole season, alas the camera I had access to back then was blowing out the picture when I was planting. If you look at the news papers you can see how blown out they are.-

I am very happy to hear that! ☺

My apologies for the late response. This little monochord has bass guitar strings on it, tuned rather loosely to get a lower note with increased sustain. If you would like to see the bed monochord with a much lower sound it can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jF6maHmVrd6fpMU

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