Build Your Own Electrical Music Devices with the Junkyard Jam Band

Making music doesn’t need to be about dropping massive bucks within the guitar store or endlessly twiddling with costly software program. You may make good noise out of bits of wooden and wire, plastic and metal. Once you construct your personal devices, creating your personal sound comes naturally.

Junkyard Jam Band offers detailed guidance on crafting a variety of musical instruments from scratch. No prior carpentry or electronics skills are necessary. Each project not only provides tips for maximizing the instrument's sound quality but also inspires you to customize it to reflect your unique musical style. Dive into creating your own personalized musical devices with this exciting band of electrical experiments!

Unleash your creativity with these innovative DIY projects: transform your old tape decks into handheld Scratchboxes, give your voice a futuristic twist using the Droid Voicebox, repurpose childhood toys into unique jazz-punk music devices through circuit-bending, craft thumb pianos and electric ukuleles out of cigar boxes, and build a versatile Mud-n-Sizzle Preamp for a crackling connection to any electrical music gadget. Start constructing your own personalized band of electronic instruments today!

During your journey, you'll explore the physics of wind instruments, delve into harmonics, and dive into music theory. As if that wasn't enough, the back of the book includes a soldering primer for those new to electrical work, along with extra circuits to help you customize your own instruments even further.

Construct your personal band your means!

From the Writer

Why Construct Your Personal Devices?

Modifying objects modifies your mind.