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How do you guys amplify your cigar box guitars and other homemade instruments? I'm interested in experimenting with different ways to amplify my tin can guitar...
Jug Fusion's amplification: Acoustic cigar box guitar - I placed a clip-on transducer pickup on the underside of the top. Works well, but I have to run it...
If you use steel strings, a regular electric guitar pickup has a lot to recommend it. Since your sound box is a tin can you might try mounting an electric ...
I'm kind of experimenting with that too. On one cigarbox git. I used a camcorder mic (Sima I believe-got from Best Buy, about $15) I've been using for...
... I got some friction tuners (uke tuners) from Elderly for about $6 (set of 4). I haven't made the instrument I was going to used them on yet, but they might...
... I have a homemade bass-thing (round body made of cardboard concrete form with 1/8" plywood top and a pine neck, 32 inch scale) which I put a piezo buzzer ...
... I just checked at stewmac.com and they have several varieties for economy tuners all selling for $10-12 a set. Guitar: open/closed gear, 3-on-a-plate. Or...
Good advice. So far I've been using metal strings-the top three or four depending on the number of strings on the instrument. I thought the metal would be...
I've had the same problem they'll work for awhile but apparently get overloaded and can't take it. My first and best cig-git used 4 strings-that way I could...
... Violins have worked fine with friction pegs for hundreds of years. I guess they'd work on our cigar box creations too. Of course, violins are made of nice ...
... For a 4 string,you could order a mandolin set and use one half of it. Or maybe that banjo set. Frankly, as far as parts go, I haven't seen any really good...
Here's a big tome on making and installing those piezo elements as pickups. Includes schematics for a line-driver circuit and some other stuff. Lots of good ...
... wrote: Of course, violins are made of nice ... Actually, they're not. Hardwoods wouldn't sound so good because the wood needs to react to the sound...
... Don't think the pegs would 'do' the metal strings but I ... pegs like ... You're right, the pegs wouldn't handle metal strings very well. If you are going...
Oh yeah, drill the holes in the pegs after you've fit the pegs in the headstock, applied the compound (sometimes it takes a couple of applications) and twisted...
... The back, sides, neck, and pegbox certainly are made of hardwood. And it's import for the friction pegs. -- Rough-edged songs from a dark place in the...
... What's true? Would you please quote what you're responding to? Thanks. :o) -- Rough-edged songs from a dark place in the soul: http://DoctorOakroot.com...
Hey all, Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experiences. I think I'll experiment a bit with a piezo setup following the instructions at harmony-central and...
I believe I was responding to the input that violins were hardwood--no intent to leave you out but it was a direct response to a message directed to me. ...
... And it's ... Sorry, not to be an uptight schmuck, but I am one. There are certainly no hardwoods used in the construction of the back, sides neck, pegbox...
... Yeah, I was going to say, the traditional neck material is maple. Greg __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with...
... Ah, we disagree on the the definition of hardwood. Of course it's maple, but that's a hardwood. -- Rough-edged songs from a dark place in the soul: ...
