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Underwood Four String

Posted by Primitive Acoustics on July 26, 2016 at 12:38pm
I cleaned up an old Underwood that had been sitting in a barn for the last twenty years, recycled some old crib frame alder into a support base and added four bottom E strings. Steampunked it up a bit and added a CB Gitty disc piezo that I mounted inside a bottle cap with hot glue and attached to the wood frame. Lots of crazy sounds when run through my guitar effects chain. It actually has some very cool resonance due to all the metal parts. I'll put up a video for a sound demo.
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  • Primitive Acoustics July 27, 2016 at 12:16am
    Thank you Bluesheart, Wes Carl, Pick, Uncle John! Turns out it's hard to keep a typewriter in tune. Working on the back-space blues....
  • Primitive Acoustics July 27, 2016 at 12:11am
    Darryl Tuttle - Thanks for the heads up on Jeremy Mayer, incredible art!
  • Bluesheart July 26, 2016 at 8:57pm

    Never seen one of those before!

  • Uncle John July 26, 2016 at 8:30pm

    Very nice.  Should play in every key.

  • the anonymous pick July 26, 2016 at 5:22pm

    "different"  award  of the  day!

  • Darryl Tuttle July 26, 2016 at 2:27pm

    check out an artist named Jeremy Mayer, he makes sculptures out of old typewriters...a lot of them look like robots...good work on your build, cant wait for the video

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