Using two steel tongue drums to build a chromatic scale
Most steel tongue drums aren't chromatic, most are pentatonic, hexatonic, or diatonic. This trait make them easy to play but not very versatile.
Is it a good solution to have two tongue drums with their key center a tritone apart from each other to build a chromatic scale across the two drums ?
I'm afraid that some detail would make this idea not work in practice. My primary concern would be sympathetic resonance within a tongue drum creating out of key tones. But since I have never played, I don't know whether this would be true or not.
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Chromatic steel tongue drums do exist. A google search for "chromatic steel tongue drum" shows at least two makers:
Rock Creek Steel Drums: They make a variety of steel tongue drums, including the "cycle of fifths", which includes the entire chromatic scale.
Zenko: They make a two-drum, 17-tone chromatic set (9 and 8 tones, respectively).
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