Made this real quickly loosely based on the plans Shane Speal posted. I'm pretty sure I'll re do this little instrument to try and make it a gourd fiddle wit...

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Comment by Jim Morris on January 22, 2016 at 4:27am

Hey Matt, I don't have any tabs for this. Of course this is 2 strings tuned F,C (I think) and played with a slide. I could pretty easily put together some tab for a fretted instrument while I'm snowed in here for a few days.. Do you use GDg tuning? It should work out OK like that.

Comment by Matthew Borczon on January 22, 2016 at 2:42am

any chance you could tab that song out? Would love to learn it

Comment by Jim Morris on January 15, 2016 at 9:59am

Thanks Rob. I can make some terrible sounds on my saxaphone!

Comment by Rob (Uker) Porras on January 15, 2016 at 9:57am

Jim,

You've don it again.

Is there anything that you can't make sound good.

Comment by Jim Morris on January 15, 2016 at 4:41am

Thanks Gary.

Comment by gary sheldon on January 14, 2016 at 4:51am

Inspirational.  I like the sound a lot.

Comment by Jim Morris on January 13, 2016 at 6:57am

That should work Dave. If the tambourine has a head on it you're halfway there!

Comment by Dave Lynas on January 13, 2016 at 5:28am
I was thinking the salad bowl. I've got some in my pile of futures. Cheap tambourine too. A big dowel split down the middle for a fingerboard.
Comment by Jim Morris on January 13, 2016 at 2:37am

Well Dave first you put the lime in the coconut...... I've used wooden salad bowls for similar banjo uke builds. I stockpile them whenever I find them at yard sales. And you're right about the fingerboard. I looked at some vids of African players and they get notes by stopping the string with a finger but not pressing down. I was able to get a few notes that way but not consistently so I'm going to put a fingerboard on this and see what happens.

Comment by Jim Morris on January 13, 2016 at 2:31am

Thanks Mike!

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