Minimalist Daxophone
Minimal Daxophone
The minimal daxophone is the most essential daxophone I could come up with. It dispenses with modularity—the tongue is screwed directly to the soundboard via four wood screws. The nice thing about this setup is that it’s very loud, since the piezo is glued right to the tongue. The piezo is inset via a 20mm cavity on the backside of the tongue, inside the soundboard, about ~1 mm deep.
There are four essential “shapes” in the minimal daxophone family—each is represented by a different “face” upon the minimal duckbill. These shapes essentially are: flat on both sides, curved on both sides, flat on top, or curved on top. Each subshape has between 4-9 tried-and-tested tongue shapes that sound great. More shapes may be coming some day!
This instrument can be clamped or screwed to a surface via its “duckbill”—the screws are inset so a #8 panhead woodscrew shall fit perfectly inside the duck bill’s eyes.
This instrument comes with a wooden dax cut from the same block, with wooden frets.
I sell these daxophones as a set of four—perfect for your nuclear family to learn daxophone together. Also, you can organize a workshop, and I’ll teach a group of 5-20 people to build them together.
$1000 for a set four shapes, 1 wooden dax.