Aloha Everyone, Its been a busy spell with gigs and family health( including cats) problems so here we are at last. The kids at my local school are progressing...
I tried using Monolote, but the tension was just too low to get anything out of it as a drumhead. Since the shrink is what controls the tension, you can't keep...
hello there i'm in the process of trying to build some basic instruments for a theatre project. i'll probably have some more specific questions over the coming...
Hello all, Check out the following info for the Hawthorn Tour featuring Matt Howden and Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus/Death In June with support from The...
... theatre project. i'll probably have some more specific questions over the coming weeks, but here's a couple of basic ones for now. i'd be grateful for any...
2005 is the Year of the 5th. Beatboxers have gathered together and a sense of unity has spread throughout the land since "The Lost Chambers of the 5th...
... sounds like fun... ... cello/double bass string is expensive... people on this list often recommend "weed-whacker line" which is easy to buy from american...
... theatre project. Cool. What show? ... reverberant tone, either by plucking or bowing. any length to pitch ratios? You can use just about any kind of soft...
... wire. ... I haven't bought any myself, but I understand that you can buy piano string wire in bulk and it's not terribly expensive. I read some time back...
the new world order rolls on!!!!!!! THESE ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT THE SUBLIME FREQUENCIES WEBSITE: SF016 Streets of Lhasa SF017 Harmika Yab-Yum: Folk Sounds From...
... Thanks for posting that. Every year, I look forward to that year's updates. Jonathan Wilson, the designer of his TogaMan Guitar Viol, was involved in some...
http://welcome.to/gagespage For a version of "an electric drum/barrel turns against a series of metal 'tongues'" Check out my electric Jamaican Rhumba Box,...
Thank you very very much for posting that. I'm a certain I would have been spared an enormous amount of jealousy if I hadn't seen that lot ... I fancy the...
The FeedBack Concert Series starts a new season and is looking for musicians for upcoming events. FeedBack focuses on electronic and experimental music but is...
Greg Heet's patents for the e-bow are listed on-line with the US Patent office. (http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html) While the language is in "patentese"...
hiho all more updateing of the bigg city orchestraa site http://ubuibi.org/ including; a whole year of streaming radio shows http://ubuibi.org/radio.html an...
... 'scool, dAS. some awesome tracks on the soundclick site (and i like the copyrights...) yeeping yimminy, my clicking finger is getting sore. the art...
Thanks Dave, I guess I'll be doing some homework for awhile. Pretty complicated. I'm looking at one by Osborne at the moment. 50 pages of very repetitive...
I've just posted some of the history of Wisconsin Lumberjack instruments, including cigar box guitars, cigar box fiddles, the Viking Cello and more. There's...
This subject of designing and winding my own pickups has been hitting me lately as I think about guitar designs and getting more invloved in the electronic. As...
These are simple and primitive but they sound good (to me anyway). http://www.anarchestra.net/articledetail.php?article_id=43 alex http://www.anarchestra.net/ ...
... thanks for the great article, alex (and overall a great site!) -- i think you've convinced me to try building a pickup. your electromagnetically picked-up...
Good how-to hand wind your own pickups article here: http://cigarboxguitars.com/workshops/Pickup_Workshop.php Also, here's an article with pix and an mp3 about...
I've been winding pickups on little plastic sewing machine bobbins. Mostly used for listening to ambient magnetic fields. But I did put a small magnet in one...
many thanks for the replies about long-string things and music boxes. as ever at the start of a project there are loads of possibilities and then its down to...
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