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The '''daxophone''' is a continuous pitch instrument of the friction idiophone category. In the most common form consists of a long thin wooden piece called a ''tongue'' clamped to a soundboard with piezoelectric microphones inside for amplification, and standing on a tripod. The tongue is bowed (or plucked) and the vibrations are stopped using a rounded block of wood called the dax, changing the frequency and timbre, similarly to pressing an oud string against the fretboard. Bowing in different regions of the tongue allows for different timbres and frequency ranges to be explored, and different tongues will have different timbres, frequency ranges, and playing feel depending on the type of wood and the shape. One side of the dax is usually fretted in an arbitrary logarithmic succession. Tuning of the dax's frets is nigh impossible because the frequency ranges of each tongue are different, instead the frets serve to create interesting, often xenharmonic jumps in pitch similar to a yodel sound. The unfretted side of the dax is continuous in pitch.  

== External links ==

* [http://daxo.de daxophone] - Homepage of the Inventor Hans Reichel (requires Flash Player)

* [http://dfiction.com/blog/2014/08/building-a-daxophone-with-hans-reichel-2007/ Building a Daxophone with Hans Reichel (2007)]

* [http://www.fmp-label.de/fmplabel/catalog2/fmpcd046.html FMP/FREE MUSIC PRODUCTION (The Label)]