"THE THUNDERBUCKET" Homemade Upright Bass Banjo
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Here is our homemade upright bass banjo aka "The Thunderbucket". Made from an old marching bass drum. Apologies for the hideous intonation. Not a bass player so much.
Made in Kansas
**EDIT**
A few folks have reached out about building their own. We never really had any plans for it but what I can remember went something like this:
The neck and the bridge was made from a curtain valance. I believe it was maple. I cut it up, glued it, and routered the edges. The bridge was made from some scrap wood I'm not sure what it was. Held in place with the tension from the strings and some double sided tape. For strings we used regular old Weed Wacker wire and turnbuckles (at the bottom) for the tuners. Just know that because the strings are nylon they will take a while to stretch out. It took months before the Thunderbucket could hold a tuning for longer than a day or so. Also the headstock is the neck from an old broken fiddle we had around. It does nothing but hold the strings and look pretty.
I you go to Winfield and wanna play this thing we camp with the Heavy Petting Zoo in the Pecan Grove. Come say hi. Tell em UA-cam sent you.
sounds like a story should be being told as you play.
Something like Alice's restaurant.
or uneasy rider
Thunderbucket is the perfect name for this thing!
A majestic creation
The intonation adds charm. Nice work!
Accidentally clicked on this video. I love this! The angled headstock appears to have the remaining part of the fretboard, and an actual pegbox at the end of it. That feature just cracks me up! 😆 but, it’s very unique and I’m inspired by it.
I thought this up by myself today in my living room and then had to check if anyone else had the idea. And here it is. Exactly what I was imagining in my head. Bass drum bass. Bajobanjo. Whatever it is, good idea dude. I couldn’t have actually built one but at least someone could.
SAAAAAAAAAAAAAME.
Bassjo
Wow 11 years ago and it the first this has come up on my feed. That's Brilliant, I love it. I want to fashion a DIY
Washtub Base, like my paternal grandmother played when I was a kid. I also love your pad.
Are you sure this isn't a contrebanjo?
Pretty cool!
You'd probably get more resonance by moving the bridge closer towards the bottom of the drum head; having the bridge right in the middle of the drum head is likely dampening a lot of the resonance you would otherwise get from the drum head.
holy shit ive been looking for something like this.
this is so great. i love the sound your getting out of it.
i've been reading up on how to build one of these - this is by far one of my favourites.
Where can I read about it?
if there was an award for pointing out the blindingly obvious, you'd have just won it.
Deadly sound
I wanttttt!iactually had one about 80% and somebody ended up taking the bass drum out of my garage 🤬🤬🤬🤬 this was about 23 years ago. Yours looks great brother sounds good too
Nice job and nice sound
This is fun.
I am making my first homemade instrument. I am trying to build a Contrabass canjo.
One bass? No 2
1. bass drum and
2. outstanding standup thunderbucket bass man
Cool 😮i will have one ,one day 🤞🤞🤞
This thing is awesome!
looking around for videos of creative basses to make for jamming in winfield and lo and behold what little easter egg I found here!
Loving it.
That's cool.
Suh-weet! sounds good and has great percussion possibilities too.
Now that was cool
That is so cool 👌
wickid build,,,sounds great,very nice.
Waaay Coool 🪕🪕🪕
U should make video game music with that, sounds very good and unique
That is awesome. !!!!
I dig this!
i like the sound and rythm
sweet
this thing really is the thunderbucket
Very cool
that is so cool.
damn been think about this one for a few years haven't seen one yet .. beat me to it .. found a Bigg marching drum a couple weeks ago .. found this hunting some measurments
Well done!
Wow, it's high technologie with two Strings! My one built with a Paperbox just has one :D
cool beans
Hell yeah. Slap that bass.
Oh that is Cool!
Kick-ass instrument! And it sounds beautiful, albeit surprisingly close to the sound of a regular upright bass, and missing most of the frequency-modulation twang of other bass (and regular) banjos. Wonder why. Drum head tightened too tight maybe?
it's the spring coil tailpiece, must reduce tension on the bridge or something
The bridge is right in the middle of the drum head, which if you look at a banjo, the bridge is far off towards the end of the banjo head, not right in the middle. That's your major difference there.
you need to put up more vids, i love the sound.
awesome man
Way to keep up the low end. Impressive!
you would make johnny cash proud
Double banjo bass
Holy shit
They should make this upright bass banjo one octave lower than that. Awesome though.
congrats !
i think the drum could use something behind it to direct the sound energy towards the listener. ..nice build.
The bridge being right in the middle of the drum head is likely dampening much of the resonance and projection he'd get if he moved the bridge closer to the bottom of the drum head; if you look at a banjo, the bridge is not in the middle of the head but is far off to one side to allow the head to vibrate, which is what gives you the sound projection.
lol what a great idea
i want to make a 5 string one now
Skills!
That’s a big bass-jo
thats sweet!
Look-out ! It's the World's largest banjo uke !!!
also sounds exactly like "de anza jig" by primus, just a bit.
haha wow i love it is this wagon wheel/?
sounds kinda like 'de anza jig' by primus
@backshortly There's plenty of bass end in the recording, you might want to listen on bigger speakers i hear stuff below 50hz in this recording clearly.
It even has turnbuckle to secure the strings.
Wow bro it's great.... what size of the drum head?
wow its gorgeous man, great job! somethin you wanna be buried with hahaha
OOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
is that a bass drum? and what strings are on there?
Great by the way.
yeah! slap that bass...drum... or whatever :D
How does it work when the bridge is attached TO the skin of the drum? Is it easy for the instrument to fall slightly out of tune because of the soft drum head?
@619booyaka619mysteri its de anza jig by primus
its "de anza jig" by primus
slapah de bass
@frizzlefry420oh thats les claypools new instrument
Damn. I have some spare drum shells laying around. Are those turn buckles at the bottom? Is that how you’re tuning it?
That thing is AWESOME! How'd you make the neck?
At least there ain't no hole in the washtub.
Les Claypool wants too know your location…
Is that the bass line from "in hell i'l be in good company" in the beginning?
watch out Les Claypool
i'm in the process of making one of these from an old Sonar kick drum, and for now only have an old Fender copy bass guitar neck to use.
needing advice on fitting the neck securely, bridge (making sure it is stable enough, and what materials work best) and how'd u get that wooden hoop at the front?
Ya i guess u have to only play primus with a beast like that
should hook up a double bass pedal and do a one man band!
I was thinking the same thing XD
Give one to Les Claypool, haha
🤣nice
it sounds like tololoche chicoteado a clasic fara fara song
Walk the line??
how long is the neck? And what is the distance from nut to bridge?
For the love of god man post a tutorial!!!
looks like you have a wammy bar at the top
it must be hard to get around... tell me there's a case to it
Fucking legit
Hate to break your heart, but see the 1936 Gibson guitar instruction book, and you will see a real, even larger 4 string upright banjo.
Yeah they made one, its in a museum....
how did you make it, video plz?
looks like a banjo
is that jhonny cash
IF THAT DUN WORK...USE MORE GUN
That thing is 100% bass, no banjo here.
Yeah, this instrument truly combines all the disadvantages contrabasses, banjos AND drums have in common. Awkward.
LOL
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