Ok Go are a quirky rock band from Chicago. They just made this video on a 2 mile stretch of road in the desert and it seems to me that the only instrument the band play is a Ukulele… everything else is played by the Chevrolet they drive!
Not too far back I fitted a piezo pickup to one of my ukuleles. It was a cheap and fairly painless exercise. Today I’m going to talk about some of the mechanics of amping the instrument.
First let’s get some technical stuff out of the way:
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| “Piezoelectric fields result predominantly
from atomic layer displacements along the nanowire axis within both the core and shell materials.” – American Chemical Society |