A Handmade Wooden Violin of Various Pitches Made From Sympathetic Nails and Resonant Strings
by Lori Dorn from Laughing Squid on (#5EA9S)
Musician Nicolas Bras of Musiques de Nulle Part, who previously created a handmade percussive instrument out of PVC pipe in order to play the song Popcorn", showed how to use sympathetic nails and resonating strings to make a wooden violin of various pitches.
Building the best nail violin I can, with sympathetic nails and sympathetic strings.
The violin can also be played without a bow, as Bras demonstrates.
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