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Homemade marxophone

Posted by Luis Andres Indaburu on December 24, 2016 at 4:47am in Performances, How to Play, Lessons, Concerts

So, after months and months of failed experiments, last night I am watching Christopher Nolan´s "Inception" with my son, I begin  sketching and come up with a perfect idea.  To fasten a cigar box to a typewriter.  So I jump on my olive green Hispano Olivetti ( The ones that were made in Sabadell in the sixties) and begin with the process. Go to bed thinking I invented something absolutely new and today found  on pinterest it was already invented.

So this year Prince is gone, Bowie is gone, Cohen is gone and my marvellous Invention was already invented Long ago 

Me sad feeling is.

Anyway, Happy Holidays.

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  • Mark C December 27, 2016 at 11:59am
    You can always perfect, or put your own personal spin on it even though you weren't the first.neither John Glenn nor Alan Shepard were the first man in space. And it's contested that Orville and Wilbur were not the first to fly. I've had ideas that I thought were original until I found out otherwise that somebody else thought it as well. It was still an original idea. Only I found a way to make it mine.
  • Shane Speal December 27, 2016 at 9:05am

    BUILD IT ANYWAY!!!  Improve on the concept.  Make it your own

  • darryl kernaghan December 26, 2016 at 7:57pm

    Tough decision ahead, are you gonna be "Pinetop" Indaburu, or "Muddy" Induburu?

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    • Luis Andres Indaburu December 27, 2016 at 5:50am

      I am on it. Thanks.

      There has to  be a slight bending of the keys, since they all converge on the same spot. That is why the best way is to use a cheap Italian typewriter. Dont try it with an Adler or an Underwood. And  yes, it will be twelve strings or something like that at most.

      It looks great though. Everybody that dropped by to wish a merry Christmas was flabbergasted.

      Thank you very much. Happy new year.

  • RTZGUITARS December 26, 2016 at 3:30pm

    The Bagelbow

    • Luis Andres Indaburu > RTZGUITARS December 26, 2016 at 6:39pm

      See?

      There is something that was never invented  before.

      How to spread the cream cheese on it evenly is a mistery to me.

  • Grandpa December 24, 2016 at 11:42am

    Oh yes, Luis. Build yours, for sure. You will be the only person you know who has one! Then, you can show us how you did it, and CBN members will be scouring second-hand stores looking for typewriters. We already have cigar boxes, so we are half way there! Merry Christmas.

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