How to Make a Pogo Cello

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Get together the essential elements.

   They are listed in the "Things You'll Need".
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   Step 2: Prepare the board.

   Fasten a bolt to the back of the board at the bottom with two eye screws.
   
   Surround this bolt with an outward-coiling spring.
   
   When you bang the board on a wooden stage or other hard surface this contraption helps it to make a thumping, bass sound.
   
   You don't lift it up
   - it springs up on its own
   --like bouncing pogo stick
   - hence the name "pogo cello."
   
   ,,,, Many interesting things can be attached to the stick to give some percussive variations : tin can lids, jingle bells, bottle caps, a cow bell, a wood block, perhaps a tambourine.
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   Step 3: Fasten the cookie or cake tin to the stick with screws

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   Step 4: about two feet from the bottom.

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   Step 5: Fasten the wire at the top and bottom with eye screws

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   Step 6: which go across the cookie tin

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   Step 7: and tighten these with a turnbuckle.

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   Step 8: Bolt a bracket onto the cookie tin

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   Step 9: and fasten a piece of bent coat hanger at one end of the wire

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    Step 10: with the other end resting lightly against the cookie tin.

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    Step 11: Create a threaded wooden rod

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    Step 12: about 2 1⁄2 feet (0.8 m) long which is drawn like a bow across the braided bailing wire.

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    Step 13: Attach other sound-making items.

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