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Permalink Reply by Jkevn on January 21, 2010 at 11:19am

That looks to be a small speaker...not a piezo. Piezo's will (almost) always look like this.....

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Permalink Reply by MichaelS Country Boy Guitars on January 21, 2010 at 12:24pm

I got a thing like you got out of the stuffed animal, it is a speaker and can be used as a pickup/microphone but mine has a lot of feedback, squeels when in the wrong place in front of my amp. I got a piezo out of a smoke detector and it seems to work much better than the mic/speaker. The piezo is also very thin, about as thin as a dime.

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on January 21, 2010 at 4:40pm

Cool, I figured this might be something other than a piezo. I want to use a piezo under my tibetian singing bowl. I might just get one out of a smoke detector.

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Permalink Reply by Roger Martin on January 22, 2010 at 4:58am

Didnt they used to tell folks to update their smoke detectors every so often, as well as replace the batteries,,,,,,,, hmmmmmmmm,, so the right thing to do is buy new detectors for the house,,,,,,,, and "figure out something to do with the old 1's?" So,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on January 22, 2010 at 1:06pm

OK, so what is a Tibetan Singing Bowl???

colin mcgrath said:

Cool, I figured this might be something other than a piezo. I want to use a piezo under my tibetian singing bowl. I might just get one out of a smoke detector.

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Permalink Reply by colin mcgrath on January 22, 2010 at 2:20pm

It is a metal bowl (not sure on the type of metal) that comes in varying diameters and depth. One strikes the bowl with a wooden cylinder (or thick dowel) then rubs the dowel around the lip of the bowl, the vibrations are almost nonstop until the rubbing stops. I figure if the vibrations of a metal string can be electrified why not this.

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Permalink Reply by Dan Sleep on January 22, 2010 at 2:23pm

That sounds pretty neat!!!

colin mcgrath said:

It is a metal bowl (not sure on the type of metal) that comes in varying diameters and depth. One strikes the bowl with a wooden cylinder (or thick dowel) then rubs the dowel around the lip of the bowl, the vibrations are almost nonstop until the rubbing stops. I figure if the vibrations of a metal string can be electrified why not this.

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