ASU 3D Design

Haha dang, I guess we are going to have two guitars in here. I promise I didn't copy you! I've been wanting to do a guitar since the day we saw the slides, I promise :)

My plan is to construct an acoustic guitar model out of audio cassette tapes. There are three possible routes for it to go:

1) If I'm able to find a crappy, super cheap guitar at Savers or Goodwill, I will incorporate the neck, saddle and bridge into the cassette model to preserve actual guitar functionality, complete with strings. Basically to make it strummable.

2) If I'm not able to find it in time, I will not incorporate actual guitar parts and make it purely made of cassettes, with the tape of the cassettes used as "strings." So this is the model that would have no functionality.

3) A second option that would be an additional step added to #2 (without guitar parts) would be to incorporate keyboard-based elements to the functionality of it. I have two mini-mini-cheapo "keyboards" meant for young children, and taken them apart. The length of the keys is approximately that of the bridge of a guitar, so I would place these in ascending order on the bridge where normally frets would go, and preserve playability, wiring the speakers to be placed on the head of the guitar. Additionally, I found an old mickey mouse keyboard which has a very large button which operates very simple drum sounds - on alternating hits a bass drum and snare hit play. I would place this where normally the hole or pickups are on the guitar. Essentially, you could operate the drums with your right hand, tapping on the main body of the guitar, and play melodies with your left hand via the keys on the bridge.

Any opinions on any of it? I'm leaning most towards #3. I dig functionality.