Talk:Boomwhacker

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As the inventor of the musical tubes known as Boomwhackers, as documented in the patent associated with them (presently not referenced in the article), and the one that coined the Boomwhackers name and registered the name as a trademark, I have noted a number of inaccuracies and speculative statements in the article and a general lack of information. I am beginning to edit and upgrade the content of the article accordingly, which has generally been noted for lack of content and low quality in general. I have not previously contributed or edited anything on Wikipedia so I have been researching the guidelines about doing so and will do my best to incorporate those guidelines in my edits. I'm particularly aware of the policy against the use of Original Research, which certainly limits my ability to expand the content of the article as much as I would otherwise could and would like to do, but it is my intent to adhere to that guideline by utilizing published articles. Not all of the articles I will cite are available online, in fact few if any are. However, they will be public citations and I have physical copies in my possession in many cases and photocopied versions or web references to such publications in other cases. I'd like to make clear that I also no longer have any monetary interest in the promotion or sale of the product. I look forward to dialoging with anyone that has any issue with or question about any of my edits. Thank you. Craigramsell (talk) 03:31, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Craigramsell, I see this is an old note, but if you are still interested in helping expand this article, let me know (or reply here and tag me with {{reply to|paul2520}}). Offline sources are allowed, but yes, it would be great to get photocopies and post them somewhere.

It sounds like you've read our original research page. Also see our conflict of interest guidelines.

= paul2520 (talk) 14:50, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

Paul, sorry for the long delay. Life took me in a different direction in 2016 but I'd like to help with expanding/correcting this article if you are still interested. I no longer have the email ID associated with my original username so I've created this new one. I had started working on some proposed edits years ago but now will need to compare any changes in the article since I worked on those. I read through the "COI" info, thank you, and understand that it is best that I don't make any direct edits to the article. So perhaps, collaboratively, we can achieve the necessary improvement. I'm not sure how this tagging thing works but I'm pasting the 'code' you suggested here now and crossing my fingers. @Paul2520: Whackmeister (talk) 19:07, 28 July 2022 (UTC)

@Whackmeister: now it's my time to apologize for a long delay! I'm happy to collaborating on expanding/updating the article as needed. = paul2520 💬 15:45, 15 October 2022 (UTC)

Rainbow colors / Colors code or convention

Hi,

Using a score software, I discovered a plugin for colorising notes with the “Boomwhacker color convention”, so, I went to this page and the only thing that is said about colors it that it's color coded but nothing more is explained. Though, looking at some website linked, I see that the color used are the Rainbow colors beginning from red for C, orange for D and so on until violet for B.

I wonder why it's not explained, though, even if it's obvious, sources are certainly needed to write about that, so, I suggest to find such sources to add this information to the article.

Bye.

You are correct about the fact that no mention is made of the color coding. As the inventor of the Boomwhackers musical tubes I could shed some light on this but my understanding is that Wikipedia frowns on direct edits by someone with a conflict of interest. To put it simply though, the existing color coded instruments at the time I invented the tubes typically had C/red, D/orange, F/green, and then some inconsistent variations of blue, purple and violet colors for G, A and B. Generally inspired by 'rainbow colors' but again, not really consistent in that upper note range. Once it was clear to me that it was important to 'color code' the tubes, I looked at those existing instruments and reached the conclusion that they were almost always diatonic in nature (i.e., no chromatically altered notes, or if the instrument had them they were not colored nor integrated into the color scheme) and that their color schemes didn't really accommodate the possibility of the chromatic notes.

Having taken a course in color theory, I was aware of the concept of the color wheel, with it's three primary colors of red, blue and yellow and mixing them to get all the colors in between. Mixing an even amount of the three primary color pairs going around the wheel - red/yellow, yellow/blue and and blue/red - would produce orange, green and violet for a total of 6 colors, and mixing the adjoining colors once again would create the colors in between (e.g., red orange, orange yellow, etc.) and a total of 12 colors. Starting with the existing convention of C being red, the rest of the scale lined up with the remaining 11 colors to produce the color scheme. So that was the ideal concept but I ended up varying the colors a little bit on the A, A#/Bb and B tubes to enhance the legibility of the black label on the A tube and make those three colors easily distinguishable as different colors.

I gave a name to the color scheme - Chroma-Notes - and trademarked it (though I never registered the trademark). The reason for the dash in the name is that it makes it a total of 12 characters, which in the logo I colored to match the colors in the color scheme itself. There are now a number of Chroma-Notes colored instruments produced by the company that now produces Boomwhackers - Rhythm Band Instruments. Prior to selling the business in 2009, both Sibelius and Finale music notation software had integrated the ability to color the musical notes to the Boomwhackers / Chroma-Notes colors in their programs, with consent of course.

Since none of this is 'published' anywhere, I'm not sure how it could be incorporated into the article, unless perhaps via a written affidavit or something like that.

Whackmeister (talk) 21:12, 28 July 2022 (UTC)