The Balaphone
by Ray Guillette

In the Winter of 1989 I worked at the Saint Kitts Biomedical Research Foundation 
facility on the island of St. Kitts in the West Indes. I spent my free weekends 
taking long walks in the rainforest on the side of the island volcano. On one 
trip I used the machete to select bamboo stalks of various diameters, carrying 
these back home with me.

Home, at the time, was a renovated sugar cane plantation overlooking the Atlantic 
Ocean.