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Homemade marxophone

So, after months and months of failed experiments, last night I am watching Christopher Nolan´s "Inception" with my son, I begin sketching and come up with a perfect idea. To fasten a cigar box to a typewriter. So I jump on my olive green Hispano Olivetti ( The ones that were made in Sabadell in the sixties) and begin with the process. Go to bed thinking I invented something absolutely new and today found on pinterest it was already invented.

So this year Prince is gone, Bowie is gone, Cohen is gone and my marvellous Invention was already invented Long ago

Me sad feeling is.

Anyway, Happy Holidays.

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Permalink Reply by Grandpa on December 24, 2016 at 5:42am

Oh yes, Luis. Build yours, for sure. You will be the only person you know who has one! Then, you can show us how you did it, and CBN members will be scouring second-hand stores looking for typewriters. We already have cigar boxes, so we are half way there! Merry Christmas.

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Permalink Reply by RTZGUITARS on December 26, 2016 at 9:30am

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Permalink Reply by Luis Andres Indaburu on December 26, 2016 at 12:39pm

See?

There is something that was never invented before.

How to spread the cream cheese on it evenly is a mistery to me.

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on December 26, 2016 at 1:35pm

Sorry for your letdown, I know the feeling ;) This is great though, I say build it for sure!

Idea off the top of my head - to keep things simple at first and similar to CBGs, put fewer strings on the box and make them interchangeable for different keys/scales. Heck I want to build one now!

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Permalink Reply by Luis Andres Indaburu on December 26, 2016 at 11:50pm

I am on it. Thanks.

There has to be a slight bending of the keys, since they all converge on the same spot. That is why the best way is to use a cheap Italian typewriter. Dont try it with an Adler or an Underwood. And yes, it will be twelve strings or something like that at most.

It looks great though. Everybody that dropped by to wish a merry Christmas was flabbergasted.

Thank you very much. Happy new year.

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on December 26, 2016 at 1:57pm

Tough decision ahead, are you gonna be "Pinetop" Indaburu, or "Muddy" Induburu?

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Permalink Reply by turtlehead on December 26, 2016 at 2:02pm

I vote for Cream Cheese Luis.

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on December 27, 2016 at 3:05am

BUILD IT ANYWAY!!! Improve on the concept. Make it your own

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Permalink Reply by Mark C on December 27, 2016 at 5:59am

You can always perfect, or put your own personal spin on it even though you weren't the first.neither John Glenn nor Alan Shepard were the first man in space. And it's contested that Orville and Wilbur were not the first to fly. I've had ideas that I thought were original until I found out otherwise that somebody else thought it as well. It was still an original idea. Only I found a way to make it mine.