Tuning it was harder than I thought and I didn't realize that having all the tongues so closely together and all attached to a constant volume resonating chamber would prevent the full range of notes. Normally, one would remove material from the tongue to make the note higher. This worked for the first tongue, but trimming adjacent tongues would change the tuning of the original tongue. Plus after a certain point, I couldn't trim it any further since there's a minimum tongue-length-to-resonating-chamber-volume ratio that I apparently exceeded. I got away with 3 notes though, which was enough to play Mary Had A Little Lamb:
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Tuning it was harder than I thought and I didn't realize that having all the tongues so closely together and all attached to a constant volume resonating chamber would prevent the full range of notes. Normally, one would remove material from the tongue to make the note higher. This worked for the first tongue, but trimming adjacent tongues would change the tuning of the original tongue. Plus after a certain point, I couldn't trim it any further since there's a minimum tongue-length-to-resonating-chamber-volume ratio that I apparently exceeded. I got away with 3 notes though, which was enough to play Mary Had A Little Lamb:
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