Also, I have an electrician's fish tape that I'm going to cut tines from and and a old leaf rake I bought at a yard sale. I'm working with a local art center trying to develope homemade roots instruments that kids can make. Hopefully we'll end up with a children's roots music band.
The keys or tines are simply jumbo bobby pins I purchased at a drugstore. I took a pair of needlenose pliers and straightened them out. Be careful doing so since they have a tendency to break.
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if fender made them they might look like this...
have you seen the pins with glue pads...like buttons?
Oh i gotcha now.. thanks great idea..
add a piezo and socket and this would be handy instrument miced up...
Also, I have an electrician's fish tape that I'm going to cut tines from and and a old leaf rake I bought at a yard sale. I'm working with a local art center trying to develope homemade roots instruments that kids can make. Hopefully we'll end up with a children's roots music band.
The keys or tines are simply jumbo bobby pins I purchased at a drugstore. I took a pair of needlenose pliers and straightened them out. Be careful doing so since they have a tendency to break.
I have been thinking about one of these ... where did you get the keys from?
Kinda fun!