@sodypopspace In swedish, “val” means whale but also choice. At the time, I wanted to make an instrument with a multiple choice of playing techniques, a one-man band. I also saw Disney's Pinocchio, which has this fascinating workshop of Gepetto and the adventure in the whale, sometimes paradoxically called the whalefish (like with the biblical Jonah) and it appealed to me as the name of this instrument, which also has a slightly fish-like form of its soundboard.
Why the name?
sodypopspace 1 month ago
@sodypopspace In swedish, “val” means whale but also choice. At the time, I wanted to make an instrument with a multiple choice of playing techniques, a one-man band. I also saw Disney's Pinocchio, which has this fascinating workshop of Gepetto and the adventure in the whale, sometimes paradoxically called the whalefish (like with the biblical Jonah) and it appealed to me as the name of this instrument, which also has a slightly fish-like form of its soundboard.
johannesbergmark 1 month ago