Instruments – Page 7 – Vulpestruments

Coffee Can Microphone

Very similar in theory to the Shouty Box, only with a much larger resonating chamber area, hopefully resulting in a slight echo effect…

Jake’s Bendjo

This is Bendjo MKII, a few modifications and improvements from the original and an attempt at making it fancy by the headstock too… This one’s for awesome guitarist Jake… here’s some of his links: http://www.youtube.com/xJakexGuyx http://www.myspace.com/experimentsineuphony http://www.youtube.com/experimentsineuphony http://www.last.fm/user/JakeGuy

The shouty box for Hecktate’s vocalist and good friend Jon is my first attempt to create a microphone from scratch. The contact mic is attached to a metal plate which is in turn connected to the resonant chamber and base with springs. This is in order to help pick up the vibrations and transfer themContinue reading “Hecktate’s Shouty Box”

The Bendjo

I knocked this one out in a few hours, i’m very much a pick something up, measure it once problem-solve later kind of person, so this is the result of having a spare chocolate tin lying about! I’ve made the bridge on the tin close to the ‘fretboard’ and much higher than it should be,Continue reading “The Bendjo”

Clampophone

This latest thingymajig was inspired very much by the ridiculous and amazing Daxophone. the idea for the Clampophone is simple, sandwich a contact mic between some wood, clamp bits onto said wood, pick up the vibrations of said clamped item and make them loud with the resonating box + the contact mic. This would reallyContinue reading “Clampophone”

The Steel Rod Box

For reasons unclear, my father has a few boxes of unused spinal surgery equipment and tools in the garage. including a whole heap load of stainless steel rods that are threaded the entire length. Something had to be done. So i’ve come up with the Steel Rod Box, rods of varying width screwed in onContinue reading “The Steel Rod Box”

Pringle Tubes

Pringle tubes have fantastic resonance! pick up an empty one and play it like a bongo, it doesn’t sound too shabby does it? taking this one step further i decided to make a few little alterations, and hey-presto! i give you the 2 string Pringle harp and the Pringle tube Ektara! The harpContinue reading “Pringle Tubes”

Suitcase Dulcimer – the Dulcicase

This is my first little project, a suitcase dulcimer/harp/zheng made from an old art supplies carry case. The wire is from stripped clothing line with eyelets, the tuning pegs from windworld.com It sounds good, a bit twangy, difficult as hell to tune to any kind of scale! I might replace some of the wiresContinue reading “Suitcase Dulcimer – the Dulcicase”