> If anyone else on the list has ever built their own
> instruments I'd like to
> hear about it.
In my band Stale Urine I had/have the percussionist job, and mostly out of
necessity I would have to scrounge up new instruments any time the band put
on a show. Mostly this was bottles, wastebaskets, pieces of scrap metal,
pots and pans, etc. I fashioned maracas out of beer bottles filled with
Grape-Nuts once. One of my favorite pieces of scrap metal was a muffler
assembly from a car; you could get a lot of different sounds out of that.
Some of the other guys in the band created the "Zombie Guitar" by affixing a
metal plate to the pickups that were left on an electric guitar we had sawed
in half. That was pretty fun because if you had something that would vibrate
correctly on it, you could shout into it and your voice would come out
really strangely distorted.
Adam
