The simple Piezo Disc pickup is one of the most underrated sound devices. Sure, they work great as internal pickups for our cigar box guitars, but have you ever considered other possibilities?
See Shane Speal's "Spring Thing" instrument (below) created by Shane Speal as a way to introduce you to new options for sound design, special effects and possibly inventing new and exotic instruments.
Post your weird creations, sound machines and otherworldly piezo instruments here!
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Started by James Pobog. Last reply by BrianQ. Sep 25, 2019. 2 Replies 0 Likes
So I bought the tin can mike kit, and am a bit...underwhelmed.Used hot glue. The disk does not touch the metal because of the glue. Should I have glued from the top?If it doesn;t matter, even with…Continue
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A great thread from Shane, new stuff in the last few years, some fascinating and thought provoking:Yaybahar: …Continue
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thanks Thomas..I was amazed at how it picked up the vibrations so far away from the pick up!!
That tree shows some real creativity. Back to nature music at it's best Belinda!
not sure that link worked?? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx5xC84sm7Q
this is the most fun I've had with a piezo....Al Fresco Diddley Bow
Love that crustacean!!
Wow Shane, who'd a thunk there were such creations out there. Interesting food for thought.
Oops...bad link from the post below. Listen to Hans Reichel's Daxophone:
The daxophone, invented by Hans Reichel., It consists of a thin wooden blade fixed in a wooden block (often attached to a tripod), which holds one or more contact microphones (aka piezos). Normally, it is played by bowing the free end, but it can also be struck or plucked, which propagates sound in the same way a ruler halfway off a table does. These vibrations then continue to the wooden-block base, which in turn is amplified by the contact microphone(s) therein. A wide range of voice-like timbres can be produced, depending on the shape of the instrument, the type of wood, where it is bowed, and where along its length it is stopped with a separate block of wood (fretted on one side) called the "dax".
LISTEN!!!
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