Contact Microphones: It All Sounds Good | Gearwire

piezo disc contact microphones are the key to making new and unusual sounds with my Springboard: http://ericleonardson.org/instruments/index.html Here you can see and hear how piezo amplify vibrations of all kinds of readily available materials and objects in this video by Gretchen Hasse is a media producer for Gearwire:
My bowed wood sounds are very similar to sounds from Hans Reichel's daxophone: http://daxo.de

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Music

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• audio
• diy
• experimental
• homemade
• instruments
• microphones
• piezo
• pickups

[ericleonardson]

For more information about the Springboard visit my website: ericleonardson (dot) org (slash) instruments

Photos and text reveal the inspiration for and construction of my instrument. (YouTube doesn't allow me to simply post the URL in comments on my own profile. I'm forced to type it in this manner.)

[neil240]

You should check out the Daxophone

[ericleonardson]

@neil240 Thanks, I know it well as mentioned on my website. Anyone who hasn't heard the Daxophone should visit the inventor's (Hans Reichel's) website at d-a-x-o dot d-e

[stevenscottoddballz]

Wouldn't the boards break the bow's strings?

[ericleonardson]

@stevenscottoddballz nope.

[Dtchmastrkilla7]

why not?

[Coui0112358]

i like that!...awesome for industrial music!

[stevenscottoddballz]

@stevenscottoddballz

Oh. Thank you for replying.

[LHSMusicClass]

Great video! Thank you for your work! Very inspiring!

[theufomusic]

@stevenscottoddballz It's only sliding over them

[RobertSHilton]

Nice work. Thanks for sharing your process.

[mastertung7]

@TheGillianKey lmao.....................lmaoo­ooo