am going to build an upright bass. Does anyone have plans or information that may help especially with scale length, tuning machines, use of piezo and any other helpful information? If you can point me in the right direction it would be a help e.g. s
Read more… Having made a couple of CBG's and an amp, I decided to try my hand at a cigar box fiddle. I chose an La Aroma de Cuba box I had purchased, because it was the right depth for a chin rest attachment, and very nearly the correct width of a 4/4 size
Klangbox violin n°2
Klangbox violin n°3
Klangbox violin n°4 - brass covered cutaways
Klangbox violin n°5 - inner bracing
Hey all,
I'm writing to share my three string fiddle made from a vodka box. I based my designs roughly off of those posted in the CB Fiddle group and from the rebec design in the plans section of the site. The box I used turned out to be very good
Read more…Just wanted to share this amazing bit of folk ingenuity with the group: the Horn Violin or Trumpet Violin. It doesn't technically fall under the cigar box category but it does take old rubbish and turn it into a violin!
The sound is reminiscent of a
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