Everyday Electronics electric guitar

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

Did anyone here ever make one of these, or know someone who did? Does anyone else even remember it? Just curious.

[gareth]

Do you mean the electric guitar in Practical Electronics (merged into Everyday Electronics) published in the late 1960s?

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I'd have thought it was early 70's, but maybe it's the same thing. Weird how you'd actually consider building your own guitar in those days. Nowadays, you'd just buy one.

[Graham.]

Does anyone remember the Glissandovibe, I think it was a bit like a Theromin but more tangable IYSWIM. Just a name that stuck in my memory.

Someone remembers it,

Talk about thread drift though!

[Bod]

[Bod]

I already had guitars, it was just interesting to actually make one.

[Brian-Gaff]

Vague recollection about such a beast, was it in the 70s? Brian

[Brian-Gaff]

Back in the 60s Wireless World had an organ as I recall, all valves. I also recall Bryan Cox talking about a project he built for a synthesiser when they first became popular, for his band, so musical instruments were most certainly made back in those days.

Diy Violin anyone :- Brian)

[Bod]

Yes, it was in the 70s.

[gareth]

Was that the one that had the key contacts as bits of wire dipping into thimbles of anti-freeze such that the slow electrolytic build up of keying current circumvented any key clicks?

[Bod]

My father in law built an organ from one of those mags back in the early

70s(I think), it played and sounded surprisingly well.

[mark.bluemel]

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People still do, though mostly I suspect it's an assembly job - the Fender "something"-casters with bolt-on necks opened the door for easy assembly of "bitsacaster" guitars.

[Peter Parry]

Practical Electronics January 1965, used Eclipse button magnets with coils wound on them as the pickups.

There was a later one in the mid 70's, that can be found at

[Ronnie]

[Dave Liquorice]

I built one about '75 '76, possibly from Everyday Electronics but more likely Practical Wireless.

Proper keyboard and gold wire based keyboard switches. Trouble is it used MOS divider chips which didn't have static protection and generating all notes mathematically isn't musically correct, So even though it worked quite it wasn't very musical.

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

I remember one of the mags did a sort of stylophone thing where the keypad was etched into copper clad board, with the help of those etch-resist pens. Quite clever, I thought.

[Brian-Gaff]

Wow what a link that was.

Are these pdfs just pictures of the pages? If so I won't b bother looking. Brian

[tony sayer]

Drift further!...

Anyone heard of the Ondes Martenot?, devised in 1928 and influenced by the theremin a short demo here,

and it makes an appearance in Olivier Messiaen's Mighty Turangalîla- Symphonie which is being performed at the Proms this year and is now sold out.

Enjoy;)...

[Peter Parry]

They look as if they are pictorial images of the original pages in pdf format.

[whisky-dave]

What were you expecting an interactive guide with 3D / HD multi-media files ?