Junkyard Jam Band: DIY Musical Instruments and Noisemakers

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS It’s a well-worn cliché that any book is a team effort and even in our magical Information Information Age of disintermediated self-publishing millionaires that cliché still has more than a kernel of truth When I say This book wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work of all those great folks at No Starch Press I’m not glad-handling glad-handing or buttering up No Starch Press to buy another book from me It’s quite literally the truth I showed up with a jackstraw mash of words and some pretty threadbare photographs The folks at No Starch Press beat that unwieldy mess into something you can actually use to make some awesomeness From vague concept through completion this was a complete collaboration First and foremost I need to thank Jennifer Griffith-Delgado my editor Again I’m not overstating one iota when I say that these were crappy confusingly written projects prior to her efforts If you believe in a God Thing please ask it to bless JGD for her patience and good will While you’re at it please also ask Your Personal Notion of Grace and Forbearance to rain fortunes down upon Riley Hoffman who is a great friend and wonderful designer and who worked tirelessly to make this all beautiful My technical reader Ron Sloat brought several welcome improvements to these projects in addition to generally keeping me honest and figuring out the true build times Liz Chadwick and Julianne Jigour caught the vast majority of my diverse collection of mistakes malapropisms and unnecessarily confusing flights of fancy Any that remain are my bad not theirs The fact that you’re looking at these words right now indicates that you somehow heard about this book’s existence I have no clue how that happened but I know Marlon Rigel did it He is a peach Most of all I need to thank No Starch Press’s publisher Bill Pollock for his irrational faith in a book that was 26 months late and sort of crazy to begin with There are also plenty of folks who’ve never set foot in the No Starch Press offices who’ve done me great service Phil Proefrock lent me his material knowhow knowhow Jesse the Guitar Tech at the Southfield MI Guitar Center fronted me a geared tuner when I most needed one Eli Neiburger and the Ann Arbor District Library furnished me with not one but two digital oscilloscopes Craig W Van Otteren and Jim Jett shared the intricacies of their DIY tin-can washboards Joe Neely steadfastly steadfastly attempted to teach me piano and also introduced me to the Penguin of Fifths for which I am eternally grateful Vince Russo Adam Stein and John Churchville are all excellent musicians and affable chaps whose insights on practical instrument instrument design and construction as well as real-world musical techniques were truly invaluable