{"id":2018,"date":"2007-04-02T20:34:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T01:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2007-04-02T20:34:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T01:34:59","slug":"single-string-electric-guitar-goes-to-the-music-loft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/single-string-electric-guitar-goes-to-the-music-loft\/","title":{"rendered":"Single String Electric Guitar goes to the Music Loft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We took our <a href=\"http:\/\/makezine.com\/09\/diymusic_guitar\/\">Make designed single string electric guitar<\/a> to show off at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrloft.net\/\">the Music Loft<\/a>. As soon as Dennis the owner came out and we plugged in the PVC pipe-based guitar and struck a surprisingly mellow note, we had plenty of attention. Several of the local musicians tried out the guitar and were delighted at the varieties of music that could be had from a less than $20 homemade instrument. Of course getting the strings and machine head for free from Dennis helped contain the cost a little ;-><\/p>\n<p>Our guitar is now a bass &#8212; after we split a string or two trying to get a conventional E tuning. One Lofter played it as a stand-up; another was into Led Zep playing a John Paul Jones bass line. Tucker came home and started on a guitar strap to be made of duct tape &#8212; what else?<\/p>\n<p>Before we left, Dennis took some pictures for the Loft website eventually. I&#8217;ll link to them once we hear that they&#8217;re up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took our Make designed single string electric guitar to show off at the Music Loft. As soon as Dennis the owner came out and we plugged in the PVC pipe-based guitar and struck a surprisingly mellow note, we had plenty of attention. Several of the local musicians tried out the guitar and were delighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}