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the famous Linsey Pollak performing at the Winter Solstice Festival last weekend. He can make music with just about anything. He played a Clarinet made out of paper and sticky tape, a Saxophone made out of a dustpan handle, a Trumpet out of a duster. really amazing to watch. The quality of this clip is woeful as I was walking while filming this but I just wanted to show some of his masterful performance.
Peter Whitehouse performing during the San Francisco Leonard Cohen Festival at Swedish American Hall in San Francisco on November 4th, 2018.
More photos from this show can be seen on The Bay Bridged.
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This Tin Can/Pallet Wood Musical Instrument is inspired by a Hungarian cymbalom, which is a zither with hammered strings. I used tin cans as the resonators, guitar strings and pallet wood for the body. The wood is raw; each board has two tin cans on a threaded shaft with tape, two steel bridges, and guitar pegs. There is a video for you to watch as well.
Tin Can/Pallet Wood Musical Instrument - an outstanding achievement in creativity and upcycling:
Items needed:
Three pallet deck boards, cut to different lengths (see photos)
two 1x2" strips to mount the boards together
Six pieces of threaded rod or long bolts (threaded rod may be cheaper!)
Six steel bridges
12 guitar pegs
Six empty, clean & dry cans to be used as resonators
Nuts/bolts/nylon washers for guitar pegs
6 threaded shafts
Nuts/bolts to mount the shafts to the boards
small screws to fasten the bridges
tape
Guitar tuner (there are guitar tuner programs available online too).
Tin Can/Pallet Wood Musical Instrument - Starting the build:
I built this in only four hours, so it seems easy to me. However, it may be considered hard, depending on your mechanical abilities. Supplies are modest, and it cost about 60 dollars to make this. The cans are similar to canned meat tins that share a name with annoying emails (haha). First, start with three boards, and cut them to different lengths, increasing by approximately 5" each.
Next, empty, wash and dry six cans that you can use as resonators. Remove any labels if they have plastic-wrapped styles. I drilled a hole through the long end of each can. This allowed me to mount the cans vertically as shown in the photos. Then, drill two small holes, just large enough to slide the guitar strings through. I anchored the guitar strings around the center post that run up through the cans later in the build. Set the cans aside for now.
Tin Can/Pallet Wood Musical Instrument - Prepping the base:
Cut the wood to length and sand smooth. I fitted the edges of the boards together fairly tightly, but that isn't critical if you want a more rustic look. Next, I drilled three holes in each end: one for the resonator mount and two for the guitar pegs. Pre-drill two more holes on each end for the steel bridges. Next, mount the three boards onto the 1x2" strips, mounting the strips in a V-shape to provide more stability and strength. Secure each board with two fasteners for each of the two 1x2"s.
Tin Can/Pallet Wood Musical Instrument - Assembly:
Install the threaded rod into the board and secure with a washer/nut on both top and bottom sides of the boards. Slide the cans down onto the threaded rod. Next, install all of the guitar pegs and secure with nuts/bolts/nylon washers. If your steel bridges do not have holes, drill two small holes in each (see photos). Route the guitar strings per the pictures, securing them into the guitar pegs. Now, have some fun tuning the instrument and learning to play it!
Editor's note: This outstanding and creative build came in with limited information. Please feel free to contact the crafter for more information, questions, etc. This creation left us speechless! :)
materials: plastic bottle, rice, beans, cut pieces of colorful paper
Note: Our baby loves this as a top favorite toy (way more than any expensive ones)
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My first cigar box guitar, in progress. It now has a new neck, but most of the rest is the same.
Maple neck, upcycled tuners, necklace pendant to cover the sound hole, brass skeleton key bridge, cabinet door hinge to hold the strings.
Sounds AWESOME.
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Home made lap steel!
Check out The Drunken Pennyfarthing Society and Shayne Gray and the Drunken Guitar orchestra here:
Here's a close up of the washtub cello in action. It's really hand-made from a washtub. The top is plywood, the rest is pine. It's tuned down to reduce the tension on the strings and thus, the neck.
This is from the 8th NYC Musical Saw Festival. The washtub cello was played in a duet with a musical saw.
John's been cobbling a superwonderstickguitar with 8 pick-ups. Count them. 8. and some electrician tape
A street musician plays a homemade upright bass built from a broom and a single string, a folding table for a stage. From the series People Living Inside the City.
John's been cobbling a superwonderstickguitar with 8 pick-ups. Count them. 8. and some electrician tape
Neptune with from left to right: Mark Pearson (oscillators), Dan Boucher (percussions) & Jason Sanford (electronics and some sort of scrap metal guitar) [Sonic, Lyon, France, November 23, 2006].
Other pictures documenting live music performances can be found here