Introduction: A 5-minute Stringed Instrument From Household Items.
This is a quick how-to on how to build yourself the easiest/quickest tunable stringed instrument in the world out of bits you probably have lying around your house.
The wire I used was from the inside of a washing line, however you can use a plethora of other types of wire/fishing line/old guitar strings etc.
The button is used to prevent the plastic lid from splitting, you can use buttons, or a nail, toothpicks, a pencil. Anything that will spread the tension of the wire so that the soft plastic doesn't rip/tear.
It can be played like a Gopichord/Ektara if you want some inspiration on how to play it!
The wire I used was from the inside of a washing line, however you can use a plethora of other types of wire/fishing line/old guitar strings etc.
The button is used to prevent the plastic lid from splitting, you can use buttons, or a nail, toothpicks, a pencil. Anything that will spread the tension of the wire so that the soft plastic doesn't rip/tear.
It can be played like a Gopichord/Ektara if you want some inspiration on how to play it!
Step 1:
The video is all you need to watch! There's a bug at the moment on instructables with publishing video-tutorials, so making this a step-by-step instructable was my way around that.
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