Easy DIY Stompbox! Acoustic-electric percussion instrument to accompany cigar box guitars!
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- I this video, I show how easy it is to make an acoustic-electric stompbox percussion instrument. This is built in the cigar box guitar tradition and is great for self-accompaniment of cigar box guitars!
My channel focuses on these topics:
Stringed instruments
Cigar box guitar building
Canjo building
Banjolele building
Ukulele building
Ukulele unboxing
Ukulele reviews
The spring!!! Genius! That sounded really close to a snare 👍
Thanks! You are too kind! I’m glad you liked it! I was just hoping to give it more sustain. Thanks also for watching and commenting!
Pretty good. Way better than the ones they're advertising all over RUclips disguised as reviews.
Thanks! They aren’t that difficult to make. Thanks also for watching and commenting!
Great tutorial Steve. I've made a couple of these but never thought about putting a spring in one. Clever.
Thanks! I thought it would be easy to do and if I didn’t like it I would just take it out.
Fun project. I like the sound with the spring better too. 👍
This is my first stompbox attempt. I'm giving this one away. I'm going to build another for the Austin Ukulele Society. I need to make another one for me to keep! You should give one a try!
Thats a wonderful boxy made there!!!
I’m glad you liked it!
I finally got around to starting on my stomp box. I built a cajon last year but would like to have the portability of an electric stomp box. In my search I saw that my friend from San Antonio had already posted this and I don't have to reinvent the wheel. I was trying to figure out how to put tamborine disks in it but the spring is a better idea. I think I'll find a way to mute the spring when I don't want it but Im going to copy, borrow or steal your idea. Thank you Steve for building and sharing this stomp box build. I can get started much sooner thanks to you!
Thanks, Bob! I’m glad you found it useful!
What a neat build! Thanks for posting!
Thanks, Gary! Give one a try!
That's really cool. Searching around YT to build myself something similar, and I like your build. Especially the spring. Which got me thinking, wouldn't it be even cooler to have a spring release lever, like on a snare drum, to get with and without spring effect.
Thanks! Great idea! Let me know how it turns out! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Nice Stompbox Steve 👍 Been thinking about making one myself
Thanks, Jason! Give it a try!
Great project!
Thanks! You should give it a try! You can be your on bass/percussion section!
Just keep on stomping !!!!!!!!))))🎸🎸🎸👍🏼😊
Will do! I'm going to make one for myself now!
Would have loved to hear it in proper action stomped while playing some guitar or something.
Yep! I wish I had. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Just made a tambourine setup. This might be my next project.
Great! Let me know how it turns out! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@stevesstrings5243 I just sent you some pics and rough audio of my creations. Thanks for the inspiration!
@@LisaKnobel I checked them out! Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
This is fantastic Steve! The way you've designed it, seems like this could serve as any number of percussion instruments -- snare, bass, tom. It even sounded like a shaker when you just rubbed your fingertips across it! Very cool. Where do you get your cigar boxes?
Thanks, Bob! I'm glad you like it! I agree it has lots of possibilities for sound. I pick up boxes from locals cigar shops. They typically only cost a dollar or two, depending on the shop. I am going to be giving this one away in an upcoming cigar box guitar giveaway (in collaboration with Poorness Studios) that will be announced this Friday. If you would like, I could build one for the Austin Ukulele Society! When we eventually get back together, if we have a percussionist in our group, they could accompany our bass player! If you have a particular vision in mind, drop me an email so we can coordinate the build!
@@stevesstrings5243 Awesome, will do!!
What is the box you are using? Is it a cigar box?
Yes, I used a cigar box. I also, did another video of a stomp box I made for the Austin Ukulele Society. Check it out! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@stevesstrings5243 would like to see this box in action. I play in a bluegrass band currently play brush snare but we are looking to add that kick drum sound for several of our songs.
@@southernfatboymusic6820 Sounds great! Let me know how it works out!
Pie-eee-zoh from piezoelectric effect!
Thanks! According to the Oxford dictionary, it’s pronounced pēˌāzōəˈlektrik, with a long E, a long A, and a long O sound. But I’m cool with other pronunciations. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@stevesstrings5243 Look at a dictionary from before the Internet starting making non-authorities like you appear to be authoritarian. It's "pie ee zoh".
@@johneeadbl5876 I’m cool with that! Next we talk about the correct pronunciations of tomato and pecan, LOL! Thanks again for watching and commenting!
@@stevesstrings5243 I don't eat pecans (tree nut allergies, no walnuts, no cashews, no...). So, I don't care how one pronounces it. Tomatuh versus tomatoh, potatuh versus potato... one thing the 'Net could bring us is an end to this "Tower of Babel" of multiple pronunciations. But, for all you reading with open minds, I did get out my circa 1994 Merriam Websters Dictionary and looked it up: shortened ("piezoelectricity" or "piezoelectric effect" (other dictionary)) "piezo" IS three syllables, "pi" as in the Greek letter and a long-I sound, "pie", "e" as in "seed", long-e sound, and "zo" "zoh", rhymes with the correct pronunciation of "potato" with an ending, long-o sound. I have also looked it up in an Oxford English Dictionary at the local library. People guessing... people lying ("Well, I looked it up" when they didn't, lying to avoid admitting being wrong, incorrect, misinformed, etc.) does nothing to further human understanding. We pronounce words differently because of relatively isolated sub-cultures where someone starts a mispronunciation and other, thinking "that's cool", follow. The 'Net essentially gives English speakers/readers the ability to have a better understanding. There are too many weird spellings in English. It's an extremely difficult language for others with Romance languages or Slavic languages as their first (second, third...) to learn. Why NOT simplify it where possible and use the common-sense rule that an "o" at the end of a word is pronounced "o" (OH, like "bow", like "sew", like "beau") and not "uh". People trying to pronounce piezo as PEE AYE ZUH are overworking trying to do something which is simple: look it up in a good, off-line (not subjected to 'Net-peer approval, popularity, etc.) If I could paste a picture here, I'd show you all--not just Steve--the proper pronunciation. Since I can't, I'll just rant. I'm a poet; don't I know it. Maybe, baby? 😀
@@johneeadbl5876 Thanks for commentary, John! That’s the beauty of language. It keeps evolving!
I thought heat could damage piezoelectric parts but maybe not
It can. I have cracked a piezo before from overheating. Thanks for watching and commenting!
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