Junkyard Jam Band

DIY Musical Instruments and Noisemakers

David Erik Nelson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

408 Seiten

2015
No Starch Press (Verlag)
978-1-59327-611-9 (ISBN)

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A collection of DIY musical instruments made from everyday materials. For any lover of music making or crafts.

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Making music doesn’t have to be about dropping big bucks in the guitar shop or endlessly fiddling with expensive software. You can make good noise out of bits of wood and wire, plastic and steel. When you build your own instruments, creating your own sound comes naturally.

Junkyard Jam Band is a step-by-step guide to making a full array of complete musical projects—no previous carpentry or electronics experience required. Each build includes tips on how to coax the best sounds out of the instrument and encourages you to mod the project to fit your own style.

Learn how to:

Bust up your old tape decks for a handheld old-skool Scratchbox
Give your voice a robotic makeover with the Droid Voicebox
Circuit-bend unsuspecting childhood toys into mutant glitching jazz-punk machines
Transform cigar boxes into thumb pianos and electric ukuleles
Build a crackling, multifunction Mud-n-Sizzle Preamp to attach to any electric music machine

Along the way, you’ll explore the physics behind wind instruments, discover how harmonics work, and get your feet wet with some music theory.

To top it all off, the back of the book includes a soldering primer for total beginners, along with extra circuits to customize your instruments even further.

Build your own band your way!

David Erik Nelson is a columnist, a freelance writer, and an award-winning science fiction author whose fiction has appeared in Asimov's and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, among others. He is the author of Snip, Burn, Solder, Shred: Seriously Geeky Stuff to Make with Your Kids (No Starch Press).

Introduction
Part I: Quick Projects and Tinkering
Chapter 1: The Slinkiphone
Chapter 2: The Plasti-Pickup
Chapter 3: The Elephant Trumpet
Chapter 4: The CPVC Slide Whistle
Chapter 5: The Scratchbox
Chapter 6: The Droid Voicebox
Chapter 7: Circuit-Bending for Beginners
Chapter 8: Junkshop Percussion
Part II: Weekend Projects
Chapter 9: The Playing-Card Pickup
Chapter 10: The Robo-Tiki Steel-Stringed Ukulele
Chapter 11: The Twang & Roar Kalimba
Chapter 12: The Mud-n-Sizzle Preamp
Chapter 13: The Universal LFO
Chapter 14: The Twin-T Phaser/Wah
Chapter 15: The Single-Chip Space Invader Synth
Chapter 16: The Bleepbox 8-Step Analog Sequencer
Appendix A: Electronics Components, Tools, and Skills
Appendix B: Extra Circuits
Appendix C: Music Theory Crash Course

Verlagsort	Daly City, California
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 233 mm
Gewicht	792 g
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Heimwerken / Do it yourself
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Technik
	Informatik ► Weitere Themen ► Hardware
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
Schlagworte	DIY • Do it yourself (DIY); Ratgeber • Musikinstrumente • Musikinstrumentenbau /Anleitung
ISBN-10	1-59327-611-7 / 1593276117
ISBN-13	978-1-59327-611-9 / 9781593276119
Zustand	Neuware