Cardboard bass!!

Beecher

This guy made an upright bass outta cardboard, and it doesnt actually sound half bad, check it out!

fish-head

Hahahaha that's brilliant! Skiffletastic.

NeMiSiS

Excellent! Will his drummer make drums out of biscuit tins ?
TK

John

I like the end of the video when he puts it down gently and makes a "You did good baby" gesture.

washtub_bass

I made a cardboard box upright bass using scrap oak flooring as the neck, and i made a pickup by breaking away the plastic casing of a Radio Shack Science Project Buzzer, and strings are weed whacker twine and the tuners are faucet-spiggots.
the cardboard bass plays great and sounds wonderfuL.

heres a vid link for proof...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6cTbaBApM4

the project took a little more than an hour and i'm still tweaking it.

Karl Hungus

You sir are genius.

fillmore jive

have you ever seen the slide guitars made from cigar boxes and corn flake boxes? there's a guy that sells them on ebay for €90.

washtub_bass

naaa.. i'm just desperate for the sound and too broke to buy an upright bass.

Karl Hungus

washtub_bass wrote:

naaa.. i'm just desperate for the sound and too broke to buy an upright bass.

Well clearly the answer lies in making more cardboard basses, and selling them untill you've enough money for a proper upright bass.

washtub_bass

ok, its been 2 years since i made the first cardboard box upright bass as a joke. But this year was cool. The 2008 Summer NAMM awarded it "Best In Show" and Bass Player Magazine wrote a rave review in the january 2008 issue plus the editor posted 3 videos of him with my cardboard box bass.
www.bassplayer.tv/?req=1&station=boxbass&video=bptv/gear/bptv_j07_boxbuild
i'm trying to get on late-night television, but i dunno.
link live video from NAMM floor
www.sonicstate.com/NEWS/shownews.cfm?newsid=6924
the lesson i've learned is to Embrace the Absurdity because EVERTHING is possible.
so in the spirit of being more absurd, i made a 3-string cardboard bass.
it sounds pretty good and i tune it to A-D-G because the tension makes it louder than the E string.

red_ice

how much! I need to add it to my collection!! I know it sounds a tad odd, but could it be tweaked to play like a chello?

I have that copyrighted now, my idea, you make it and ill sue your ass! :pac: haha

Gotta love that shit man, fair play!

eoin5

The ultimate irony would be to make a hardcase for it

Dord

eoin5 wrote: »

The ultimate irony would be to make a hardcase for it

LOL! :pac:

red_ice

eoin5 wrote: »

The ultimate irony would be to make a hardcase for it

paper mache?

cherryghost

thats sweet! i want!

yevveh

big fish little fish cardboard.. bass!?

sounds pretty nice, what with it being a box with strings on it

Yakult

Beecher wrote: »

This guy made an upright bass outta cardboard, and it doesnt actually sound half bad, check it out!

Man your feeling the Jazz. Like your tripping!!

Great idea tho! sounds pretty sweet!!

washtub_bass

a hard case would be crazy and worth much more than the box bass itself.
i'm thinking more of a HUGE zip lock baggie made of Tyvek. does anyone know where to get one? i made a one-string cigar box electric violin that sounds pretty good, i'll make a video today or tomorrow.