The Devil's Workshop
Not to say that my hands have been idle lately; still, I do sometimes have nervous energy in need of an outlet.
Allow me to present the new Indelicate Instruments 'Hack 408', an electric kalimba. Genuine office-grade paper clip tines have been left lovingly untuned to any known scale:
Here's a closer - but fuzzier - view:
The speaker is around 4", and was rescued from some boombox or something, I forget. It's wired to a 1/4" jack that lets me plug directly into an amp, so that the speaker becomes a mic, but I can just as easily run it as a speaker, which produces a neat pseudo-reverb from the tines.
I am also pleased to report that along the way, my soldering skill has improved from 'nonexistent' to merely 'poor'. My goal is to reach 'adequate' by the end of summer...
Allow me to present the new Indelicate Instruments 'Hack 408', an electric kalimba. Genuine office-grade paper clip tines have been left lovingly untuned to any known scale:
Here's a closer - but fuzzier - view:
The speaker is around 4", and was rescued from some boombox or something, I forget. It's wired to a 1/4" jack that lets me plug directly into an amp, so that the speaker becomes a mic, but I can just as easily run it as a speaker, which produces a neat pseudo-reverb from the tines.
I am also pleased to report that along the way, my soldering skill has improved from 'nonexistent' to merely 'poor'. My goal is to reach 'adequate' by the end of summer...