Junkyard jam band
Subtitle: DIY musical instruments and noisemakers
By: David Erik Nelson
Publisher: No Starch Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Format: paperback; eBook
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781593276119
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Electronic apparatus and appliances; Musical instruments; Electronic musical instruments; Construction; Amateurs' manuals; Design and construction
Other titles: DIY musical instruments and noisemakers; Do-it-yourself musical instruments and noisemakers
First sentence: Jack White (best known as the front man for The White Stripes) has a custom hollow-body electric guitar with a built-in bullet mic on a spring-loaded retractable cable.
Description: "A collection of DIY musical instruments made from everyday materials. Projects include audio effect generators, a sequencer, an electric ukulele, a PVC slide-whistle, and an acoustic-electric thumb piano. Features step-by-step, illustrated instructions, modifications, and a soldering primer. Touches on topics like circuits, harmonics, wind instrument physics, and music theory"--
Table of contents: title: Quick projects and tinkering. The slinkiphone; title: Plasti-pickup; title: Elephant trumpet; title: CPVC slide whistle; title: The scratchbox; title: The droid voicebox; title: Circuit-bending for beginners; title: Junkshop percussion; title: Weekend projects. Playing-card pickup; title: The robo-tiki steel-stringed ukulele; title: The twang & roar kalimba; title: Mud-n-sizzle preamp; title: The universal LFO; title: Twin-t phaser/wah; title: Single-chip space invader synth; title: Bleepbox 8-step analog sequencer; title: Appendix A. Electronic components, tools and skills; title: Appendix B. Extra circuits; title: Appendix C. Music theory crash course.