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The Most Beautiful Music You'll Hear from Soup Cans & Pallet Wood

Check out this homemade version of a Cymbalum, the traditional hammered dulcimer from Hungary. This one was made with just soup cans and pallet wood.

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Permalink Reply by Sean on January 6, 2016 at 4:46am

Is it wrong to want to build an electric one with bass gauge strings and 1 gallon cans to play through huge amount of fuzz and a giant bass rig?

Cuz that's what I want now.

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on January 8, 2017 at 6:05pm

Do.It.

Neanderpaul made a diddley bow from a trash skip and a braided steel towing cable...

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Permalink Reply by Bruce Boogie on May 8, 2017 at 2:00am

EXCELLENT IDEA

Something like Royal Blood on a Cymbalum

Make it and put up the video ~ this will be awesome.

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Permalink Reply by Lane Martin on January 6, 2016 at 6:44am

Incredible.

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Permalink Reply by Robert Killen on January 6, 2016 at 8:41pm

I have to admit, until I saw the strings I was utterly perplexed. Now I have to have one.

I knew those cans I've been saving would come to some use!

...and I have a couple old palettes just waiting for their resurrection. :-)

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Permalink Reply by Jim Morris on January 7, 2016 at 10:25am

Damn you Shane! Stop posting stuff to make want to make instruments I've never heard of before!

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Permalink Reply by Cigar Box Nation on January 9, 2016 at 6:47am

I'm like a drug pusher

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Permalink Reply by AGP # on January 7, 2016 at 12:56pm

"Ditto" all previous comments, especially the one by Jim Morris.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Fontaine on January 7, 2016 at 1:41pm

Amazing!

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Permalink Reply by Peter Otto on January 9, 2016 at 1:22am

So beautiful!

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on January 9, 2016 at 10:19am

Like a hammer dulcimer without all the extra strings. Totally cool! Thanks for posting Shane!

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Permalink Reply by Rooster Reaves on January 9, 2016 at 3:36pm

Very cool!!!

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