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Summary: Cutting the A note pipe for a copper pipe xylophone is easy with these tips, get expert advice on crafting musical instruments in this free video.
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Benjamin Hehn Benjamin Hehn has lived most of his life in Northbridge Massachusetts near the site of a Native American Massacre that took place near his house. Much of his... read more
The next thing we're going to do is cut our "A." Now we know that the high C was about eight and three, thirty-seconds of an inch and we that the B was about eight and a half inches. It was just under eight and a half inches and we had measured it at about fifteen-thirty seconds if I remembered correctly, eight and fifteen-thirty seconds and that was just about spawn on. So, we're going to do play safe with the "A", is just go under nine inches so what we're going to do is like thirty-one, thirty seconds above eight inches. We're going to be just shy of nine inches because we do not want to go sharp. We want to go flat. I'm going to make a little marking here just under nine inches on our pipe and then we're going to take our pipe cutter and line that up and we're going to make our cut. Again, this is our "A? So, we got our "A" cut. We're ready to drill and move on to the next step.