Finally finished this one. It has a oak top, a walnut bowl back, a hickory neck and a jatoba fret board.Frets are a minor pentatonic with the flat 5ths, or just the blues scale (3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 15)Currently tuned to open A.
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I like your Blues Bowl. Did you make the sound box out of a wooden salad bowl?
Anyways, I just completed my first blues scaled instrument, and the fret placement looks like yours, so hopefully I got it right. Have you ever made a table of the notes your instrument produces. I tune mine to G-D-G' (like a dulcimer), and get the following notes (see table below). I was wondering it you could confirm whether I'm getting the notes I should as I'm totally new to the blues.
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Hello Raymond.
I like your Blues Bowl. Did you make the sound box out of a wooden salad bowl?
Anyways, I just completed my first blues scaled instrument, and the fret placement looks like yours, so hopefully I got it right. Have you ever made a table of the notes your instrument produces. I tune mine to G-D-G' (like a dulcimer), and get the following notes (see table below). I was wondering it you could confirm whether I'm getting the notes I should as I'm totally new to the blues.
-Rand.
Thanks!