In response to a request in the cigar box gituar thread..I have opened up a strange ideas thread.
so what do you recon you could make an instrument out of.
There has been some discussion here in the past & there have been some interedting TV programes and the odd book about such matters.
There was a british programe aired recently that had a whole professional orchestra playing improvised insiruments.
That is a book arround about makinh instruments out of fruit and vegitables....apparantly carrots and turnips make pretty fair woodwind instruments.
seasick steve is known to tour with a hubcap gituar.
I've had a passing thaught about making functional drums out of oil drums.
there is always the "thongophone".
When I was in primary school, one of the girls turned up with a fife made from plastic tube....that the teacher was initally scheptical about..but aparantly it played just fine.
Back when I was a very yong sound man, I had a foldback wedge made out of a 5 sided cardboard box and a pair of car speakers that came out of a triumph stag....it worked pretty fairly.
If ya want something crude but loud...graba length of corogated electrical conduit..20 and 25mm is best..32 works if you have big lungs. anything arround 2 or 3 feet will be fine
just roll it up in a loop.....point the open end away.....seriously AWAY...and blow good and hard.....it will scream a beauty...if you want a but more volume and depth..bung a funnel on the end.
There was a white bloke performing Dingerydoo music at expo88..that had a sliding didge made from a piece of 50mm conduit stuffed up a piece of 50mmm drain pipe......yeh quite funny and allowd the didge to be played across normal western notes.
so come on lets hear it..the weirder the better.
cheers
so what do you recon you could make an instrument out of.
There has been some discussion here in the past & there have been some interedting TV programes and the odd book about such matters.
There was a british programe aired recently that had a whole professional orchestra playing improvised insiruments.
That is a book arround about makinh instruments out of fruit and vegitables....apparantly carrots and turnips make pretty fair woodwind instruments.
seasick steve is known to tour with a hubcap gituar.
I've had a passing thaught about making functional drums out of oil drums.
there is always the "thongophone".
When I was in primary school, one of the girls turned up with a fife made from plastic tube....that the teacher was initally scheptical about..but aparantly it played just fine.
Back when I was a very yong sound man, I had a foldback wedge made out of a 5 sided cardboard box and a pair of car speakers that came out of a triumph stag....it worked pretty fairly.
If ya want something crude but loud...graba length of corogated electrical conduit..20 and 25mm is best..32 works if you have big lungs. anything arround 2 or 3 feet will be fine
just roll it up in a loop.....point the open end away.....seriously AWAY...and blow good and hard.....it will scream a beauty...if you want a but more volume and depth..bung a funnel on the end.
There was a white bloke performing Dingerydoo music at expo88..that had a sliding didge made from a piece of 50mm conduit stuffed up a piece of 50mmm drain pipe......yeh quite funny and allowd the didge to be played across normal western notes.
so come on lets hear it..the weirder the better.
cheers
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