musical instruments from junk: make a poptar with Nick Penny how to make
musical instruments from junk: make a poptar with Nick Penny
hello my name's Nick Penney and I've been making musical instrumentsat junk with children in schools twenty years onsee mid-eighties and I just thought I'd showyou this instrument called a pop tart been very successful children actuallylove making these Icona pop tart when I invented becauseit's made from pop bottle and he's got stream like guitar and basically what it is isa plastic bottle with no incontinent straining middle which has a piece word fix to it and he twisted round likea panda times the string I'm and you can changethe sound up be that's quite a nice and you can make very simple materials Tunisia whose workbest and you can use one liter bottle or evensmaller than I can get a better sound attitude who and pressing perhaps you need to dois to cut yet label of its component usually not pretty well I'm you could leave iton net but said I think it's nice to you maybe decorate the instrument itselfwith stickers and things like that on into the end zone not take the label of tech top of youdon't need that know when I'm done with this bottle Annathis would need a grown up to do this i cud little slit with craft night theshootings let I could say that something then Idon't need to do care I one says listen it you can getinside with the terraces pan Cup still do that a wind-up to be about three things like that like to make it could be a bit smaller I meanyou can't make it a little bit bigger later on I'm going to make it to be able to makenot very weak string I find it works the bestadministering will do district sounds the best is calledpolypropylene string so the plastic type: a string you getting hardware stores and we need to cut piecemeasured per piece about one-and-a-half times round bottle so hehollered at the top came down to the bottom up to the topagain down again that's about how long wantsto be in a crisis train comes in not nice colors as well you can chooseyour favorite color to management where many to sort of old string in half if you likebring me 2 N's the string together and at theother end you've made so to lose then just saw the score step down nice and flat something else I've doneto the bottle design drill a small hole in the bottom of itwith an electric drill again that's something that very muchneeds to be done very carefully by an adult grown-up and that must be about four orfive millimeters and that's about three sixteenths venageI'm it could be a bit bigger better that'sthat's about right
minute if manage that is about theright size may need to put the loop ended a string through that whole hot hands get it right away down the bottle to the otherend this on the patient's keep feeding in and eventually and getdown at the bottom and formally bottle and you'll be ableto the finger and hopefully hand put itthere and you need to get a piece in dowling no pense who would do this isactually wouldn't dowling doesn't be quite as long as this pressabout three inches four inches long would do that ten centimetres on but to me know and bodies about millimeters thick they're not pencil /url felted dried outwith the perfect well put that through lick the top like that now but put the bottle down onto the table says it's holding thepieces were in place while you do this and then you need to tie some notes as close to the bottom of the bottle ifyou can get them use both this is true at the same time see another reunite beat not I'm really want to makeabout reno so they go together in one place nocould be even more if you want if you had to make a being a whole andyou know not the more the merrier and then we need to pieces sematech easily find and stick spare into the stream down the bottom if you want to you can tiedit up by cutting up right now the way this instrument works says if you twist this round mypropeller string will height not as it twists when it gets toa certain point it'll be putting tight enough so thatthe frictional stop this coming undone again I as you might soundlike that making tighter and I and looser and if you like you can put your fingerinside impress the train to make it shorter and longer and bring the down here to one side them up I'm play teams with it notes thatquite perfectly possible if you wanted to sometimes people wantanother string inside I think that over complicating if it gets quite difficultto do that you could make another pot tower andtape it to this one and then have attorney Jim said not two notes you can get together with a group offriends in everybody has popped arnelle have different sounds notes that they can play let me ask youcan do kept little piece of plastic that you cut out for this window here she's folded over that she could cutinto its order plectrum shape to shape and you can usethat up straying now better this here we felt it you could put little stickers on it nameon it name the instru- when it was may lot of fun with this is called what timeis it said hope you enjoy making it thank you very much for listening