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tube bass demo 2024-04-07

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And now for the musical equivalent of my drawings. (I don't know what the volume will be like on your device, but it does get pretty loud on mine so, uh, be prepared for that.) This instrument is made of a broken piece of PVC pipe I fished out of a construction site dumpster, with two weed trimmer strings tuned with eyehole screws and amplified with a piezeoelectric pickup directly under the saddle. The scale length is about 192 cm and the tuning is the B and E of a five-stringed upright bass. I built it in about fifteen minutes one day after school in 2006 or 2007 while frustrated with another project. It is my favorite instrument I have built.

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