You might have the tech for the workarounds, but that tech might be dedicated to things like breathable air, for instance. It depends on how deep the resource well that colonists brought with them -- considering how badly most of the settlements in colonial North America did, there might not be much.
You can get an amazing amount of instruments out of bamboo (http://www.world-bamboo.com/en/instruments.cfm), though I don't know about the tone quality of a bamboo marimba; the marimbas I know are pretty dense wood... but if you brought bamboo, giant reed, and rivercane, you'd have a great basis for a material culture based on a highly renewable resource, assuming you're careful with your carbon and water cycles.
What have you got against contra-basses? Except that they look like a bitch to play and sound like foghorns, I mean?
I think a lot of stringed instruments would have to wait, because guitars and fiddles both sound through the body of the instrument, so the wood quality is important -- and trees would take a long while to establish, and even longer to grow to useful-for-instruments size.
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Date: 2007-06-24 08:38 pm (UTC)You can get an amazing amount of instruments out of bamboo (http://www.world-bamboo.com/en/instruments.cfm), though I don't know about the tone quality of a bamboo marimba; the marimbas I know are pretty dense wood... but if you brought bamboo, giant reed, and rivercane, you'd have a great basis for a material culture based on a highly renewable resource, assuming you're careful with your carbon and water cycles.
What have you got against contra-basses? Except that they look like a bitch to play and sound like foghorns, I mean?
I think a lot of stringed instruments would have to wait, because guitars and fiddles both sound through the body of the instrument, so the wood quality is important -- and trees would take a long while to establish, and even longer to grow to useful-for-instruments size.