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Bamboolele
I just made an ukulele from scratch. I was planning to make a detailed post about it but realized it would take to long. So I put the pictures I took at the process of building it in a video, and published it on YouTube. Here is the link.
The final result looks like this:
The strings length is 20”.
The distance between each fret and the bridge is as in the following table:
fret inches additional 1/32
0 0.000000 0.000000
1 0.000000 28.736352
2 1.000000 23.859856
3 2.000000 17.461035
4 3.000000 9.625331
5 4.000000 0.433388
6 4.000000 21.961328
7 5.000000 10.280997
8 5.000000 29.460211
9 6.000000 15.562979
10 7.000000 0.649716
11 7.000000 16.777448
12 8.000000 0.000000
13 8.000000 14.368176
14 8.000000 27.929928
15 9.000000 8.730518
16 9.000000 20.812665
17 10.000000 0.216694
It’s called “bamboolele” because the fretboard, the nut, the saddle and the bridge are made of bamboo.
The material to build it (excluding the wood, which I took from leftover pieces) cost about 50 USD.
The YouTube video is the disclosure of a patent I was planing to write, but have no money for. If you wanna build one for your own use, I’d be glad to provide more details about it’s construction. Just send me an e-mail (see top right of this page).
Castrati
”When asked by the Pope (I forget which one) what the Catholic Church could do for music, Igor Stravinsky is reputed to have answered without hesitation: “Give us back castrati!”" (Ref.: http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/jokes/#musician)
Musical Expressiveness
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