You can play any of the instruments in this book into a microphone to amplify the sound. However, undesirable feedback occurs under some conditions and the volume varies considerably depending on the distance between the instrument and the microphone. Enter the piezoelectric transducer. A piezoelectric transducer converts mechanical vibrations into an electrical signal. The original […]
Instrument Type: Experimental
In gourd drum engineering – a gourd percussion instrument which may have elements of an idiophone, a membranophone, or both, but employs nontraditional techniques in its construction or mode of playing.
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Verbose Talking Drum
A very nontraditional approach to a talking drum. Similar in construction to a timpani, but utilizing materials available in most machine shops.This is our most complex design. A lot of ideas were kicked around on how to design a mechanism that would allow the tension on a drumhead to be changed with a foot pedal. We probably should have looked up how a kettledrum operates but we didn’t think of it at the time. What we […]
