{"id":558,"date":"2010-03-10T02:08:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T02:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2010\/03\/cardboard-bass.html"},"modified":"2014-04-27T15:07:33","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T13:07:33","slug":"cardboard-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2010\/03\/cardboard-bass.html","title":{"rendered":"Cardboard Box Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left;\" href=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330120a87f564c970b-pi\"><img class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e0099229e888330120a87f564c970b \" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/krisdedecker.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00e0099229e888330120a87f564c970b-120wi\" alt=\"Cardboard bass\" \/><\/a> &#8220;The &#8216;Bogdon Box Bass&#8217; represents a reduction of technology and the simplification of needs. By demonstrating that a quality sound can be achieved by using unconventional material components at an extremely low cost, a cardboard bass guitar places the least demand on resource technology and encourages people to shift their preconceptions about the &#8216;typical novice instrument&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Cardboard is not a traditional product material, however the introduction of innovative bonding, cutting and structural techniques has provided the opportunity to consider this lightweight and recyclable material in a more creative fashion. Works with or without an amplifier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Available as a do-it-yourself kit or fully assembled at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edencompanies.com\/bogdon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bogdon Music<\/a> (no free plans). More information on the construction of the instrument <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bassplayer.com\/article\/bogdon-box-bass\/Jan-08\/32919\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/2009\/06\/shovelman.html\">Shovelman<\/a> &amp; <a href=\"http:\/\/notechmagazine.com\/2013\/11\/low-tech-music-one-string-guitar.html\">One string guitar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The &#8216;Bogdon Box Bass&#8217; represents a reduction of technology and the simplification of needs. By demonstrating that a quality sound can be achieved by using unconventional material components at an extremely low cost, a cardboard bass guitar places the least demand on resource technology and encourages people to shift their preconceptions about the &#8216;typical novice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[157,43],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.notechmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}