Rattlebrained

Scott Miller, who is the guy behind one of my favorite stores on the web Bone Dry Music contacted me last fall about a new kind of rhythm bones he was developing and would I be interested in creating a logo? Would love too! was my answer of course as I began to work on his idea: a robot hand playing metal bones.
You can read the whole story of how Bot Bones came to be on the store’s Bot Bones information page; they are metal rhythm bones currently made from aluminum (with copper, brass and stainless steel still in the works).

I’ve had a pair of medium (1”×6 1/2”) aluminum Bot Bones for two weeks now and I really, really like them. As an intermediate bones player I’d place them among the “easier” bones to play…

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I had somewhat figured out that you could change the pitch of the bones because now that I have 2 similar pairs of bones I was intrigued at how hard it was to get the same pitch from both hands. My left hand always sounds higher regardless of which bones I’m using. LOL

Because of that I’ve made good progress with simply finding how I prefer to hold them but remain in awe with all the great rhythms shown here!

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A foolish whim these last month was buying and then making myself a pair of rhythm bones so that I have a pair for each hand. Foolish because I know that my washboard playing is not nearly good enough to give myself yet another thing to practice, but what can you do… Rhythm bones were just too attractive to not try and now that I have, I find them even more so although obviously it will be years of practice to get somewhere; it must be said that I’m not particularly dexterous…

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