Tin Music Box with Piezo Mic
Here`s another new live Instrument , a Tin Music Box with an attached Piezo Disc as Pickup.
I found this in a local Toy Store and it`s great as an percussion and melodic Instrument.
I mostly loop my toys in my Live P.A.,put some filters and FX on it ( like Beatrepeat ) or resample it to a Native Instruments Maschine Pad to play it per Midi Keyboard.
It`s recommended to use a speacial Preamp for Piezos because of the high Impedance.
You can build you`r own with Schematics like This , but i bought a cheap one from Ebay and it works fine.
I mostly loop my toys in my Live P.A.,put some filters and FX on it ( like Beatrepeat ) or resample it to a Native Instruments Maschine Pad to play it per Midi Keyboard.
It`s easy to build your own Contact Microphone for other Toys or Percussions ,
for example like this Tutorial.
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| Or solder the Piezo to Jack. |
You can build you`r own with Schematics like This , but i bought a cheap one from Ebay and it works fine.
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| Ebay |