Читать книгу Handmade Music Factory - Mike Orr - Страница 16

Most parts for this six-string guitar could be found out in the garage. An antique license plate serves

as a resonator, with a wrench and bolt for the bridge and nut. A shotgun shell is used to adjust the

volume from the piezo contact pickup, which itself was taken from a broken videogame drum set.

The neck is fashioned from two broken dowels, saved from being thrown out on garbage night.

A hinge and bent nail hold the strings down on one end, while zither tuners from someone else’s

craft project serve as the tuning mechanism.

Junkyard Dog

BY WADE COSTENBADER OF CATASAUQUA, PENNSYLVANIA

14

Handmade Music FactorY

Introduction

One Man’s Trash:

A History of the Cigar

Box Guitar

is the

FIRST WRITTEN

HISTORY

of the instrument.