What do you do when you get a dipper gourd that's not straight enough to build a banjo out of? Well, if it's curved enough, you build a harp!
This hard features a figured maple sound board, hand-shaved tuning pegs (made from walnut dowel and wooden toy wheels!) and four ball-end ultra-light electric guitar strings.
This little instrument is certainly not concert-ready, but it does illustrate a novel way to turn a gourd into a music maker (other than as a rattle, a kalimba, or, of course, a banjo).
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rot-n-dobe Says: Thursday, June 11, 2009 @5:39:31 AM
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