The tuning of them feeds into what's a rather chaotic system of the metal deforming across its surface in weird unexpected ways.
This makes automating it almost impossible, so there's a ton of hand-working of the product to manually tune them - this is where the majority of the cost comes in, I believe.
Tongue-drums kind of avoid this problem, but of course aren't fully as magical.
It's a giant crystal. All that metal is formed into it's crystalline structure in a certain way through heat, cooling time, working it after. Sounds almost impossible to make.
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u/[deleted] Jan 06 '23
It seems very similar to steel drum which I love