About Us
Adam Kaplan
Adam Kaplan is a professional musician, craftsman and inventor based in Laguna Beach. Trained in classical flute, Adam also enjoys playing the saxophone, keyboards, and timbales. He has been composing and performing music for over 30 years. Encouraged by his very artistic parents, Adam began crafting things even before his teens. Friends and teachers were amazed at the miniature devises, like catapults and cross bows, that he was able to create from bits of wood and metal.
Adam is a also an expert piano tuner and technician. Thus it was from this unique blend of talents and training that Adam's originality and inventiveness sprouted. The earliest prototypes of the Tok Bloctm emerged from some musical wood blocks Adam made in high school. Wanting to create a truly new instrument with a fuller sound and more tonal expression than a simple wood block, Adam continued his experimenting and eventually settled on the coconut, combined with the sound board, side opening and mallet. After some more years of refinement and testing the modern Tok Bloctm was born.
Check out his website at AdamKaplanMusic.com
Proto Tok Bloc circa 1979
Leif Joslyn
Leif Joslyn is the managing director of production, sales and marketing. He loves drumming, eating coconuts and climbing trees.
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Sister Sites
- Nature's Print
Solid silver & gold botanical jewelry cast from actual imprints of natural items.
- Spirit Shuttle
A wonderful collection of spiritual art for the home or alter.
- Temple Trees of Thailand
A site that explores the beauty and legacy of sacred trees found on Buddhist temple grounds in Thailand.
- Sallathai
A beautifal collection of salvaged wood items from Southeast Asia, including vintage teak loom shuttles to to large rosewood gazebos.
- Ecovisions
A site that fosters ecological literacy by drawing attention to environmental problems and their viable solutions.