moonmilk

instrument-a-day 15: leftovers guitar

February 15th, 2009

This length of bamboo was going to be a clarinet until it split all down its length, so I took some leftover bits of wire and aluminum tubing and a guitar string from the servo guitar and made this. The shape makes it almost impossible to hold and play at the same time, but eventually it sounds like this.

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The open tube shape gives a tiny bit of acoustic amplification out the ends, but it’s still not very loud.

During February 2009 I'm making a new handmade instrument each day. photoblog