It's a Japanese instrument?

I'm familiar with the Chinese type of banjo that has 3 strings, less so with this type

Nah. One is a northern European instrument called a jouhikko , and the other one is called a trossingen lyre originally made in Germany .

Ohh I see,

@MoistBread Thin "veneer" plywood is good for resonance.
Balsa wood is used to reinforce said thin ply from inside in spots where it spans too far without support and in the corners.
If you need spacers between the upper anr lower thin ply - use MDF - it is as sound-neutral as it gets

I was wonder if making the horns a detachable part that I can switch out in between if I wanted to play one or the other haha

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/van9qkFfNx8/hqdefault.jpg

such things do exist

is that bad luck meme from the flapjack movie

What would I use for a reinforcement for the edges or the outside wall ? I can't find any reading material for that kind of thing

more wall

I tried playing a 5 string bass on a few occasions

my left hand cramps trying

is that a 24 string bass?

nice

More like 8 Triplet strings

24 strings sounds cooler though

Yeahh I'm useless at guitar, I can play the harmonica fairly competently, but it's not a 'cool' instrument

The one im making should be easy to play. All you need to do is put pressure on the strings for both of them. They should sound like this

says who? the harmonica is pretty cool but most of peoples experience of them is your drunk uncle buying one from amazon and thinking he's a savant

Well yeah, the double-string bass is also often referred as "8 string"

https://youtu.be/8Ld7cFTm4X8

Even though you play it like a normal 4-string

My grandad plays better than me and he's fucken 86 hahah

You just have an option to vary pressure to make the second string reverb differently

https://youtu.be/6yzF5SY7WJg

Got a good set o lungs on him

What I do like about harmonicas is they're cheap, portable and ready to go straight away

i am once again not asking

yeah they're a convinient instrument

i'm also a fan of kalimbas for that, although the bigger ones are also amazing

I do own a chromonica from like the 50s but it needs some cleaning

you cant casually whip out an accordian from your backpack

A irish lyre is small enough for a backpack

i wanted to get an OP-1 for a long time tbh cause its like almost everything you need to make music but pretty small and well designed