Cookie Tin

Jim Yates said:

When my kids were in Beavers (a Canadian farm team for Cub Scouts), 35 years ago, the Beaver leader phoned and told me that the kids had been making homemade instruments. She asked if I'd bring my guitar and lead a sing song. I didn't think it would be fair for me to be playing a Martin guitar when they were playing instruments made from tin cans, chocolate boxes, bottle caps and elastic bands, so I took a cookie tin, a broken hockey stick and some strings from my banjo (Hey it was time for a string change anyway) and made a 5-string fretless banjo.
I did take the guitar, but they were impressed that I could actually play songs on the home made banjo.
Years later I played that same banjo at the Unusual Musical Instruments workshop at the Mariposa Folk Festival.

Here's the banjer. I still have it:
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I still have one of the musical instruments that one of my kids built too. They called it a tambourine stick:
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I can't wait to hear your cookie tin banjolele Jerry.

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fowl said:

I once built a cookie tin three stringer tuned like a mountain dulcimer. It looked great but did not sound as good as a cigar box.

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captain-janeway said:

They're fun to build. Twitch is great and has instructables.
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1...?key=dUFXZkQzNXJISG50eW4tQ1Myb3lIZDdfRHhyNGN3

https://www.instructables.com/Ford-mini-glovebox-guitarukulele/

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fowl said:

Three strings on a dulcimer with diatonic tuning give you a bit of a bagpipe-like sound.

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