[sdiy] "Bongo machine"

[Dominic Tarr]

>A 'big' solenoid would.
>But a lot of the 'sound' of the bongo comes from the angle it
>is hit at, kind of 'bending' the note by changing the tension during the strike.
>Good luck doing that with a simple striker!

>For a show, I'd cheat by using sampled bongo sounds & a dummy bongo smacker ;D

you'd probably be able to tell that it's sampled though wouldn't you? how hard would it be to have a servo pull the striker to the side or some thing though? not too hard surely... or you could just have multiple strikers per drum.
 
I was thinking it would be cool to build a robot drum machine out of old buckets and what not, and have a bank of switches to trigger the strikers for each step, and have the steps selected by a rotating wheel with electrical contacts on it, and then set it up in some art gallery or some thing and let people come along and play with it.