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DIY Stick Bass

Fascinating Instructable about constructing your own "Stick Bass" using a piezo pickup, a broken easel stand (anyone have one laying around?) and a single bass string.

Seems to me that this may theoretically be closer to the DIY Wash Tub bass, given the single string and no frets, but what do I know.

The interesting part to me is the piezo pickup. I didn't realize that you could coax that much bottom end out of those. I'll need to run some experiments with a washtub bass to test it's effectiveness.

Creating a unique instrument from spare parts - sorta like I created my girlfriend in college - is a pretty cool notion. I dig the audio demos, too.

Hop on on over to Instructables to check it out.