"I bought a kit with a box and and a kit sans box... these things are incredibly easy to put together. I put a piezo in and used two sided tape to place it under the lid.... located roughly in the center of the tines halfway between the…"
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A Moment Of Silence For Dickie Peterson (bassist for Blue Cheer).
Started this discussion. Last reply by Dan Sleep Oct 19, 2009. 2 Replies 0 Likes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM ROCK ON, Dickie!
A Moment Of Silence For Mary Travers
Started this discussion. Last reply by Mortimer Snerd Sep 18, 2009. 2 Replies 0 Likes
I thought I should post this since we lost her yesterday. Peter, Paul & Mary were one of the founders of the Folk movement after Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. We lost too many GOOD people this…Continue
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Battmann commented on HENRY LOWMAN's group CIGAR BOX KALIMBAS"plan on getting this kit soon for you, thanks for adding to your inventory Ben"
"Guess I'm one of the "people" who have asked for this. Glad to see it. Thanks....plan on putting a pickup in mine."
C. B. Gitty (Ben) commented on HENRY LOWMAN's group CIGAR BOX KALIMBAS"I thought folks here might like to take a look at this, as people have been asking me to put it together for a long while: a kalimba hardware parts kit!
Use it with a cigar box, a plank, a dried gourd, whatever. These are the same parts we use on…"
Diane in Chicago commented on HENRY LOWMAN's group CIGAR BOX KALIMBAS"I had built a kalimba years ago on a Larranaga box (very thick wood, maybe cedar) using electrician fishing wire and it sounded like hell. I sometimes buy Hugh Tracy vintage kalimbas on the ebays when they are going cheap, and I take off the…"
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Comment Wall (128 comments)
- At 12:02am on February 24, 2011,
Patrick Breton said… Hi Henry,
i would need your advise on choosing what gauge of fishing line to build my Djeli Ngoni Cigar Box, it is a sweet little africain (banjo) instrument that use fishing line for string and i know you have experimented this part so what size of line would you use for this ?
here is a link on youtube with the instrument i'm talking about it seam to be in G tuning !!!
- At 1:25pm on February 11, 2011,
John Wendell said… - Hey Henry...still learning how to do stuff around here...do I post my video by putting my embed code in the comment column?? did that but don't see a youtube image like some of the others!
- At 9:15am on November 4, 2010,
MichaelS Country Boy Guitars said… - Thanks Henry.
- At 8:46pm on November 3, 2010,
beStillroy said… - Hey Henry
Thanks For the Great POSTS. I Appreciate All of the "Sharing".
Keep On Please
HI
- At 10:22am on October 26, 2010,
Joker said… - oops, didn't finish my sentence, i built ont too
- At 10:21am on October 26, 2010, Joker said…
- Elemental (7 Hills Stomp drummer) just finished building electric diddley bows- time to experiment in microtones!
- At 12:03pm on October 24, 2010,
rob maidens said…
- nice one man you got some cool pics thanks
- At 1:30am on October 13, 2010,
Sick Folk said… - Thanks man! We should jam, I'm in md.
- At 6:35am on October 2, 2010,
Keni Lee Burgess said… - Thank you Henry for your kind words. Enjoy.
- At 4:38am on October 2, 2010,
bemuzic said… - ha, well wish I could say I meant it to have that deeper meaning...but yeah was just having fun!!
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