Information dump incoming!

over the last few days, I've completed quite a bit. In a nutshell:

finished cutting the arcs out of the resonators

cut the first four metal strips to length, and drilled holes in them

build this fancy jig thing for finding the nodes of the bars; this image shows how it starts, and after beating the key for a while, the salt that is sprinkled on it tends to do this:

the salt has collected at the points on the key which vibrate least, which is where we want to drill the holes through the keys. 

if we look back a few days earlier than this, we will find me cutting the final few resonators...

using a saw that I have officially christened "Medieval Torture Device A" to cut one of the resonators

 this is a looooooong pipe.

a slightly more effective view of the pipe

and a view from the other side. 

thats all for now! more to come in the coming days...