Music from home made instruments

Cigar box diddley bow with piezo disk pickup


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In this episode, I play a cigar box diddley bow with a piezo disk pickup. This is an instrument of my own design. The instrument includes a piece of steel picture hanging wire, two brass ferrules, a tuner consisting of an eye bolt with accompanying nut, as well as two washers and a wing nut. There are also two wood dowels serving as a nut and a bridge, though this sort of instrument requires only some kind of object to serve as a bridge.Also, the tune I sing is totally improvised.

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Music from home made instrumentsBy Jonathan Brandstater