School:
Pleasant Street and Cherry Hinton
Dennis’ design shows a stone on a rope moving around a pulley to play the note. We liked this idea for the mechanism, but thought it needed some more decoration, so combined it with Tariq’s terrific picture of the “Peculiar Pencil”. We’ve made the pencil with three pieces of plywood, hinged together so we can fold it up to move it more easily and we’ll soon go back to Cherry Hinton school to ask for their help to paint it. We’ve developed Dennis idea from having a stone on a string, to having a small set of levers attached to the pulley wheel. We think this will help the player play the note more reliably.
