Junkyard Jam Band: DIY Musical Instruments and Noisemakers

This book is all about making your own instruments in the comfort of your own home or workshop. It shows how you can bring out the music out of different materials, presenting an array of different musical projects, without needing prior experience in woodworking or with electronics. Each set of instructions teaches the reader to bring the best sound out of their projects and gives advice on how to tailor each projects to the sonorous wants of the maker. Cool projects include building a voicebox/vocoder like device, messing with circuitry in toys to make punky electronic music machines, making thumb pianos/kalimbas, and electric ukuleles! Through all these instructions, readers will discover the science and engineering in music, as well as knowledge of electronics and circuit work.

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