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ELASTIC STRINGS

Musical strings made from rubber bands make an appealing sound. The tone has lots of fundamental and almost no overtones. The decay is rapid, and the overall feeling is sort of softly punchy, both warm and rhythmic. Almost all books of home-buildable instruments for...

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  • WHAT-A-SHAME: Design and Construction
  • WOOD AND BUTTER
  • HOCKETING
  • TUBULAR CHIMES, ALTERED
  • POTWOT: A Torsional Musical Instrument
  • COIL SPRINGS AS SOUND SOURCES
  • ROTARY MUSIC MACHINES
  • SCRAPING
  • SOUND INVENTIONS: Selected Articles from Experimental Musical Instruments
  • THE SPEAKER DRIVER INSTRUMENT
  • GUITAR-LIKE-THINGS
  • STRING LATTICE GUITAR
  • SPOOLS & WHEELS
  • THREE PASSAGES FROM *INNER CHAPTERS*
  • SOLOWAY SIREN AND SAXTON SAVART
  • FLOPPING OVER
  • MORE SAMPLE LIBRARIES
  • ICICLES AND MORE
  • SCHMEARY GLISSARY
  • SLOPPINESS
  • ANIMATIONS
  • ADDITIONAL NOTES PERTAINING TO HOMEMADE WOODWIND MAKING
  • MORE ‘MOE
  • FORCED VIBRATION
  • NAMES AND APPEARANCES
  • SORRY-ASS ORGAN
  • THE WINDOW OF AUDIBILITY
  • IMPEDANCE
  • INSTRUMENTARIUM HOPKINIS SAMPLE LIBRARIES
  • PALINDROMES
  • EVERYONE WANTS BEACH-FRONT REAL ESTATE
  • ELASTIC STRINGS
  • AGITATION PIPES
  • MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CATEGORIZATION SYSTEMS
  • ADVENTURES IN FRICTION
  • FUNDAMENTAL, HARMONICS, OVERTONES, PARTIALS, MODES
  • ALUMINUM DISK GONGS (Article #2)
  • ALUMINUM DISK GONGS (Article #1)
  • ALTERNATIVES FOR PITCH CONTROL IN WIND INSTRUMENTS
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