Found object guitars are popping up everywhere! We have two new viral videos this week featuring guitars made from an axe and a car air filter. If you have a wild instrument of your own, post it in the comments below.
Reverend Peyton Plays and Spl
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I couldn't believe these ads when I first found them. Mussehl & Westphal first ran these ads around 1924 in Popular Mechanics Magazine. In doing more research, I learned that cigar box uke player, Shelley Rickey wrote a whole blog about them. Rea
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Video - Ken Butler's "Bicycle Wheel."
Ken Butler is an artist and musician, as well as an experimental musical instrument builder. His Hybrid musical instruments and other artworks explore the interaction and transformation of common and uncommon o
Check out this video demo on engraving wooden instruments using a Dremel. From the guys at Make Magazine.
See the full instructions here.
Just "stumbled upon" the Unprofitable Instruments page. Lots of ideas to steal^H^H^H^H^Huse in smaller and bigger projects...
BTW: I created the discussion because there was apparently no place for dropping links to strange, interesting, silly
Read more…Hi Cigar Box Friends, I'm in the process of planning an exhibition of Homemade Musical Instruments. Washtub bass, Washboard, Singing Saw and of course, Cigar Box Instruments. I'm very interested to hear from anyone that is knowledgeable about the His
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