My latest piece is a droney violin prototype. Made from a violin body, piano tuning pegs, a motor from a RC Helicopter and my old favorite washing line for strings. I’m going to think about adding some frets and seeing if i can play it like an automatic hurdy-gurdy of sorts.
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Motinjo Update!
My good buddy Rich has done an awesome rendition of Crazy Little Thing Called Love by Queen on the Motinjo. There’s just one day left on the auction, so don’t forget to bid here! All proceeds from the auction will go towards Movember.
The Movember Motinjo!
It’s Movember again! This year I’ve made another moustache instrument for the Movember campaign! It’s currently on auction at ebay at this link here. It’s made from 100% reclaimed materials including a Piano stool leg for the neck, a Picture frame for the body and a resonating body made from a shoe polish tin! SomeContinue reading “The Movember Motinjo!”
Latest Collaboration
For my latest piece, I collaborated with my wife to create one of these: It should be ready and making lots of noise in March 2013!
Acoustic Droneitar
This quick instrument was an experiment in three different things. It’s been made from the leg of a piano stool and some scrap wood, nails, washing line wire and a motor from an old cd player. The main reason for this build was I wanted to see if an acoustic version of the Droneitar would work atContinue reading “Acoustic Droneitar”
Dronemachine MKII
This latest instrument is an evolution of The Dronemachine I made a few months back. It uses the outer core of an electric fan motor as a pickup, a cassette player motor drives a piece of string which causes the musical strings to vibrate. The wooden peg looking things are actually part of the action in aContinue reading “Dronemachine MKII”
Sketches
I thought I’d share a few pages from my sketchbook with you all. You may or may not find them interesting! Various ideas for alternatives to standard frets to shorten the length of a wire. Ideas for the Dronemachine improvements. Ideas for variations on a psaltry theme. Sketches for the design ofContinue reading “Sketches”
The Droneitar!
My latest instrument is a 2-stringed droning guitar for Mehdi from *Shels and owner of shelsmusic, one of the best independant record labels out there! It uses a motor at one end of the neck to spin a small piece of string at the other, the string hits the wire and creates a droning noise.Continue reading “The Droneitar!”
The Oak Tinjo
This latest Tinjo was commissioned for a friend of mine for his birthday (these make excellent birthday presents, hint hint). It was constructed from some scrap oak planks I found which were glued together, shaped, sanded, burnt, carved and varnished to end up with this: The frets are simply nails chopped down and grinded toContinue reading “The Oak Tinjo”
The poorly edited portfolio and other news
I’ve had a re-organise of the site to make it a bit easier to navigate, also I’m going to start posting some more tutorials and tips/ideas for aspiring instrument makers to show them just how easy it can be to make cheap but awesome instruments! Also, using youtube’s new video editing service, I’ve thrown thisContinue reading “The poorly edited portfolio and other news”
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