Anyone experiment with the speaker element from those "talking cards". You know, the kind that play tunes and such when you open them. ~$5 a piece from Wally World (Wal*Mart).
I'm gonna pick one out and test it with my amp.
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I'm sure this has been asked before, but has anyone put in two piezo elements to get more sound (not just for tone or pickup position)? This little speaker element has little pickup capability.
I'm a public school music teacher so for holidays kids and their parents love to get me those because they play music. I love to get them because I strip them apart.
I've found there are two different kinds they use in those cards. If the card plays a song that sounds pretty good it tends to be enclosed pretty well and doesn't get much of a response if its left in its enclosure. I've come across some that are really just a piezo buzzer that usually play a MIDI type file. Very artifical sounding. This is great because its just like the Radio Shack piezos except they are already out of the case. I would not recommend going out and buying up all the cards though. I'm a public school music teacher so for holidays kids and their parents love to get me those because they play music. I love to get them because I strip them apart.
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SOME ONE IN THE SITE HERE POSTED THIS E MAIL AND THEY dO HAVE INEXPENSIVE PIEZOS
We better hurry tho cause they only have 11,867 left,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
They look like the answer most of us need to build piezo powered CBG's.
No question its less work then having to buy the piezo, break it open and do all that extra work.
At the listed prices their completely affordable.
The ones I've seen have a piezo inside that looks exactly like the ones I buy for $1. It's hard to imagine building a speaker that small any other way.
Wes Yates said:
Dunno. Looks like a really thin traditional speaker. I figured it was like a mic pickup.
-Wes
Doc Oakroot said:
It's just a piezo, isn't it? Same thing we use all the time.
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Ben said:
SOME ONE IN THE SITE HERE POSTED THIS E MAIL AND THEY dO HAVE INEXPENSIVE PIEZOS
We better hurry tho cause they only have 11,867 left,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
They look like the answer most of us need to build piezo powered CBG's.
No question its less work then having to buy the piezo, break it open and do all that extra work.
At the listed prices their completely affordable.
Wes Yates said:
-Wes
Doc Oakroot said:
Thanks!
-Wes
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