{"id":524,"date":"2008-04-10T17:33:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T00:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=524"},"modified":"2008-04-12T20:19:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-13T03:19:24","slug":"a57-chinese-clock-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heavylittleobjects.com\/?p=524","title":{"rendered":"#a57 :: Chinese clock key"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ENLARGE\"<\/a>I have too many projects.<\/p>\n

Let alone the fun, rx<\/a> engaging day job<\/a>, adiposity<\/a> the kids, web<\/a> the still-not-build-logged-but-almost-done basement studio renovation and this little site, I always seem to take in orphans, hoping to nurture them to completion.<\/p>\n

My latest is an antique ukelin<\/a> – an obscure 1920s stringed instrument that – I learned to my amazement the other day via Google – is meant to be simultaneously bowed and plucked …<\/p>\n

I found the thing in my parents’ attic – they had bought it for my brother when he was 12 and got obsessed with owning a dulcimer or zither – and brought it home. It needs new strings, so I dropped it off at L.A. Guitar Garage so the guy could put together a full set of the more than 35 steel and brasswound steel guitar strings needed.<\/p>\n

My plan is to restring it slowly (sudden changes in tension are likely to crack the aged wood) and tune it using this:<\/p>\n

A clock-maker’s multi-key, which I found at the Chinese-tool-vendor’s stall at the Pasadena City College swap meet on Sunday. All the Googling and hardware-store scrounging in the world couldn’t turn up a 1\/8-inch square wrench, but hey – this is exactly why I love the Chinese tool vendor. You can find literally anything there – about which I’ll post more tomorrow.<\/p>\n

As for the ukelin – it’s a tad large to qualify as an HLO, but if I can get it tuned up and sounding nice, I’ll post something here, along with some mp3s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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