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Jonathan's Musical instruments from found objects podcast

By: Jonathan Jay Brandstater
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  • Summary

  • In this podcast, I introduce musical instruments I have made myself, using objects I found in and around the house. This is in keeping with the folk tradition where people make instruments from whatever is available. You can make your own instruments,as well! This podcast is designed to inspire you. What you make and how you make it is up to you. Factory-made instruments tend to be made a certain way, using specific materials and methods. The folk tradition allows for a lot more creativity and flexibility. When it comes to drums made by a craftsperson, for example, no two drums are exactly alike.

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Episodes
  • Demonsrating a cigar box guitar with a "hum bucker" pickup

    Demonsrating a cigar box guitar with a "hum bucker" pickup
    May 15 2024
    In this episode, I play a cigar box guitar I built from a premade poplar cigar box guitar neck, a cigar box, wood dowels, machine head tuners, brass ferrules, wood screws and guitar strings. I happen to love playing blues music and so what I play is an improvised blues tune.

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    2 mins
  • Demonstrating a cigar box guitar

    Demonstrating a cigar box guitar
    May 14 2024
    In this episode, I demonstrate the first cigar box guitar I ever built. This one is over twenty years old. A neighbor and friend tweaked the design by adding a piece of cedar to the headstock, among other improvements. This instrument has three strings. I often play blues music on it, as I do here in this recording.

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    2 mins
  • Clay ocarinas

    Clay ocarinas
    May 13 2024
    In this episode, I demonstrate a variety of clay whistles and globular flutes, aka ocarinas, I have made in the past.

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    4 mins
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