Number of tones

7 tongues of pure clear sound on the left

7 tongues of pure clear sound on the right

Tuning

Customs Tuning:

Left:      E,G,C,D#G#C,D#

Right:    D,F,B,D,G,B,D                  

Measurement

24cm wide, 11cm high

Weight

Less than 1 kg!

Re-Tuning-System

You can create and explore your own scales and tunings! Just take off  the head of the Garra and here we go! Taking out the tuner and sticking it again, in a different position inside the tongue will change the tine of the tongue. If u put the tuner near the tip of the tongue, the tune will become lower. If you stick the tuner near the base of the tongue, the tune of it will become higher.

With this tuning system, you can obtain almost 2 tones of variation in lower tongues and more variation in higher tongues.

Mic

We have created an exclusive electromagnetic microphone (Patent Pending) which is a unique feature of this instrument. Because of it special design, this microphone doesn´t make feedback. It has a High-Z output, so you can plug it to any guitar or bass amplifier, or to a direct box.
We also included a volume knob so you can have full control of the instrument output in your performance! This special microphone system allows Garrahand to be included in a drum set, so you won´t have to worry about the sound of the drums interfiering with your Garrahand. The sound of the Garrahand is perfectly "isolated" from the enviroment.

Damper

Is  an internal mechanism that can be adjusted simply by hand, and allows us to change the tone of the instrument.
By using the Damper the sound of the Garrahand becomes more versatile: with the tight Damper you will obtein a pure tone sound with few harmonics, meanwhile with the loose Damper we will obtein a more “African” sound, with a high amount of harmonics, and bright.

Ton Holder

Allows the Garrahand to be add in a drum set by using the standar system provided for Ton drum.
The Garrahand keeps hanging, like a common Ton, making it easy to play in a traditional set.

7 tongues / computer managed automatic cuts

Because of the new technologies that are used to make this instrument (Like the Autocad planing design and the tongues computarized cuts) we can guarantee that all our instruments have professional cuts, perfectly equal.
We could also achieve the incorporation of the seventh tongue thanks to this new technology.  7 tongues of pure clear sound!

Quick and easy tuning with almost 3 tone range

This innovative charasteric was also thought for the use of the proffesional player.With a really simple system, we can modify the tuning of any of the tongues just in seconds... up to three tones! This feature gives us the huge oportunity to change tuning, from complete transpositions to modulations and scales of any kind. With this exclusive system, the Garrahand can be adecuated to play in almost any tuning.

Amplified melodic range, more than 2 octaves

Another development with patent pending is our cutting pattern, the result of months of tough investigation and development.
This special pattern, which has different forms of cutting for the high/medium/low tongues, provides a melodic distance between them much higher that ones made by a common cut achieving the goal of enlarging the range of the instrument. The result is a practical instrument in which you can play low, medium and high notes in a range of more than 2 octaves. This becomes of special interest when we use the Double Garrahand, with 14 notes, which gives us 4 low notes, 4 medium notes and 6 high notes to combine freely!

Steel-crome semiesferic designed body

The new Garrahand is made of Steel-Crome alloy. The crome avoids the corrosion and the oxide of the steel.
Steel is a 3-time more dense metal than iron. It has outstanding acoustic properties, and it is used in the sound vibration field, for example in the production of modern church bells, where in the past it was only used a bronze-tin alloy. The steel gives Garrahands body a deep sound and a great sustain, at the same time that it provides a high resistance to the whole instrument and specially to its tongues.

Two-layer ovenproof coat with varnish protection.

The two-layer ovenproof coat is the professional finishing this instrument needs. It consists in two different layers, each one baked, water-resitant, sun-resistant, scratch and hit-resistant, of poliester paint. The second layer is a protection and shine varnish which protects the paint. The finishing is made out of "Plata Viejo", a very special texturized ovenproof paint, which has the special property to combine little pieces of aluminum in a silver background, creating a striking texture. The ovenproof paint has the special feature of being extremely strong, and because of this the steel sticks to it and vibrates with it. Other common paints take vibration from the sounding body.