{"id":41,"date":"2011-06-20T22:04:53","date_gmt":"2011-06-20T22:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave0.nfshost.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/06\/20\/behold-the-lego-ukulele\/"},"modified":"2011-06-20T22:04:53","modified_gmt":"2011-06-20T22:04:53","slug":"behold-the-lego-ukulele","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/06\/behold-the-lego-ukulele\/","title":{"rendered":"Behold the LEGO ukulele"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Brickley\u2019s Words -- Blog Archive -- Ukulele out of LEGO bricks?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.br-eng.info\/words\/index.php\/2011\/05\/21\/ukulele-out-of-lego-bricks\/\">Brickley\u2019s Words &#8212; Blog Archive &#8212; Ukulele out of LEGO bricks?<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.br-eng.info\/words\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/head.jpg\" width=400 align =left hspace=10 vspace=15> And it&#8217;s playable&#8211;although, interestingly, only in a really cocky low tuning.  The builder indicates that, on earlier designs, the bridge popped off well before he&#8217;d tuned the root to C, which is why he went with this slightly unconventional (although rad as hell) tailpiece-style saddle.  Very cool, and much more playable (and far more mellifluous) than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.henrylim.org\/Harpsichord.html\">infamous LEGO harpsichord<\/a>.<br \/>\nI *love* these tuning gears, incidentally.  Since a uke C isn&#8217;t all that tight, I wonder if the final tuning is more a result of the bridge\/saddle, or the tuning machines.<br \/>\n(via <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.craftzine.com\/archive\/2011\/05\/playable_lego_ukulele.html\">the CRAFT blog<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brickley\u2019s Words &#8212; Blog Archive &#8212; Ukulele out of LEGO bricks? And it&#8217;s playable&#8211;although, interestingly, only in a really cocky low tuning. The builder indicates that, on earlier designs, the bridge popped off well before he&#8217;d tuned the root to C, which is why he went with this slightly unconventional (although rad as hell) tailpiece-style &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2011\/06\/behold-the-lego-ukulele\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Behold the LEGO ukulele&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}