I made a cardboard box upright bass using scrap oak flooring as the neck, and i made a pickup by breaking away the plastic casing of a Radio Shack Science Project Buzzer, and strings are weed whacker twine and the tuners are faucet-spiggots.
The cardboard bass plays great and sounds wonderful.
from TechnoPrimitive on September 7, 2006 - 2:33pm
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