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My instrument
is called the Groovy Guitar. I started out by
getting directions for a styrocello at
"http://home.earthlink.net/~graypoodles/stycel.html"
I decided to change it a little and turn it into a
guitar because it was too short to be a
cello. To start my
instrument I went to Jo-Ann Fabrics and my mom
bought some Styrofoam shaped as a rectangular prism
and they gave my mom the cardboard tube used to
hold fabric for free because they were going to
throw it out. Then when my mom, dad and I got home
my dad and I started to work on my instrument.
First my dad cut some grooves in the Styrofoam with
a pocket knife and I taped the cardboard tube to
the Styrofoam in the groove. Then my dad cut some
slits in each end of the tube. Next, I got some
fishing line and tied it to each end of the tube in
the slits. After that, my dad and I got a smaller
piece of the cardboard tube and taped it to the
Styrofoam under the fishing line. Then my dad cut
some more grooves in a Lincoln log so the string
could slide in. Then I taped the Lincoln log to the
Styrofoam under the fishing line. Lastly, I
decorated my Groovy Guitar with markers. It took my
dad and I about 1 hour to make the Groovy
Guitar. I produce
sound by plucking the strings. I can change the
dynamics by plucking harder or softer. When I pluck
it hard it is louder and when I pluck it soft it is
quieter. I could change the pitch by making the
string tighter or looser. When the strings are
tighter they have a higher pitch and when the
strings are looser they have a lower pitch. The
timbre of my Groovy Guitar is very twangy. That is
my instrument, The Groovy Guitar. |
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