The Diddley Bow Plus
The guitar has been a staple of music for generations, used in such a large variety of music. In our paper we will be explaining the parts of the guitar how the work, the physics of the guitar with sound waves and how they relate to the guitar working properly. We will then describe how the overall guitar works and we will go through the process which is the guitar making sound and incorporate the parts into how they help make the guitar work.
The Diddley Bow guitar generally consists of one single string attached to a board or pole that runs through both ends of a cigar box. The cigar box, made of wood or a wood-cardboard hybrid, is cut on both sides with one or more sound holes drilled through the lid to increase resonance. Our cigar box guitar features a flat pine board to allow for 3 strings (tuned to E, A, and D respectively) and 21 toothpick frets hot glued down at the …show more content…
The string then vibrates at the fundamental frequency. There are factors though for what type of sound/frequency the guitar will make, such as where on the string is plucked and how much tension is on the string, changing the frequency of the string. The frequency has to be correct and has to correspond to the note in which it is, otherwise the note will not sound right. From there the longitudinalsound waves resonate into the resonating chamber due to the holes cut in it, which makes the sound waves. The bigger the chamber the louder the sound. From the chamber the sound waves go back outside of the resonating chamber and into your ear.
The diddley boy, aka the cigar box guitar is a guitar that most of the time, 1 string along with a cigar box for a resonating chamber and pine wood for the neck. Like a normal guitar you pluck the one string and the sound waves resonate into the cigar box due to the holes cut in the box and bounce off the walls of the cigar box. Simple yet very fun to
The guitar has been a staple of music for generations, used in such a large variety of music. In our paper we will be explaining the parts of the guitar how the work, the physics of the guitar with sound waves and how they relate to the guitar working properly. We will then describe how the overall guitar works and we will go through the process which is the guitar making sound and incorporate the parts into how they help make the guitar work.
The Diddley Bow guitar generally consists of one single string attached to a board or pole that runs through both ends of a cigar box. The cigar box, made of wood or a wood-cardboard hybrid, is cut on both sides with one or more sound holes drilled through the lid to increase resonance. Our cigar box guitar features a flat pine board to allow for 3 strings (tuned to E, A, and D respectively) and 21 toothpick frets hot glued down at the …show more content…
The string then vibrates at the fundamental frequency. There are factors though for what type of sound/frequency the guitar will make, such as where on the string is plucked and how much tension is on the string, changing the frequency of the string. The frequency has to be correct and has to correspond to the note in which it is, otherwise the note will not sound right. From there the longitudinalsound waves resonate into the resonating chamber due to the holes cut in it, which makes the sound waves. The bigger the chamber the louder the sound. From the chamber the sound waves go back outside of the resonating chamber and into your ear.
The diddley boy, aka the cigar box guitar is a guitar that most of the time, 1 string along with a cigar box for a resonating chamber and pine wood for the neck. Like a normal guitar you pluck the one string and the sound waves resonate into the cigar box due to the holes cut in the box and bounce off the walls of the cigar box. Simple yet very fun to