Cool Cardboard Instruments to Make & PlayThis volume explains techniques for making an array of musical instruments from cardboard. The projects include a Middle Eastern Lute, a Chinese Moon Guitar, a North Indian Sitar, an Angel Harp and an Australian Didgeridoo. There are instructions for sound boxes, tuners, peg heads and fretting. |
Common terms and phrases
adjustments Appalachian dulcimer assemblage Attach screw eyes Attach strings banjo Bottom bow hair box body wood box for sound cardboard for sound chromatic scale diameter cardboard tubing do-re-mi dowel Drill holes dulcimer end blocks eyes for tuners fingerboard framework Fret placement fretboard glue flap glued guitar Hammer hardwood harp hitch pins hitch pins Procedure length between nut lute lyre mando-banjo Materials flat cardboard mbira nails for hitch neck to sound notches number of strings nut and bridge nylon peg head pentatonic scale piece of wood pieces for nut placement will approximate play plywood Procedure 1 Cut Rainsticks receive the neck resonator rubber bands scale screw eye tuners securing strings shape shown side slightly sound box body soundboard stick for neck string holes string length string rib string tension stringed instruments strum hollow tail end thin plywood Tune strings tuners nylon string tuning mechanisms wood for neck zither pins
References to this book
The Harmonious Child: Every Parent's Guide to Musical Instruments, Teachers ... Beth Luey,Stella Saperstein No preview available - 2003 |