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Bucket Cello

Continuing from last year’s STEM project, Leezle and I used the remaining neck from the guitar roller coaster project to make a sound projecting instrument. The main requirement was we could only use stuff we already had on hand – nothing could be purchased.

Leezle is passionate about cello, and if I may say so, has become quite accomplished. She wanted to make something resembling a cello or bass.

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Alice the pitbull’s  favorite toys are buckets. Luckily, there are extra buckets on hand.

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Leezle made “F” holes, which ended up being “I” holes.

i-HOLE

We used two bolts to make the neck and bridge nuts.

brige-nut

neck-nut

It actually works – the next only has 3 tuning pegs, so it’s a 3 string instrument.

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