FAWM: "Homemade"

Homemade

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HOMEMADE
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All the FAWM songwriting challenges and I have to put this up! " Create a homemade song backed entirely by your homemade instrument(s) You don't have to use homemade recording gear, mind you! Tag it #homemade". https://write.fawm.org/forums/3083

And then, of course, lose the recording and forget about it. Now I find it and I'm unimpressed, but in the true FAWM spirit of putting everything up: the homemade instruments are the cigar box guitar, the UPVC electrical conduit whistle in G, and the claves, verily cut from 1" beech dowel. All are shed-built. So, alas, is the melody which I find uninspiring I have added a little shimmer (courtesy stargazer) to it in the hopes of improving, but whereas @dragondreams can coax additional joy and wonder with that device from his fippling, I cannot scale those empyrean heights.

#lo-fi #fipple #slow #quiet #garage-folk #instrumental #cbg

Comments

@mariekevink 6h

Home made whistle... *Digs out some conduit pipe*. This is lovely. Kind of shows that I'm Ye Olden Days all instruments were hand made from whatever there was available because this certainly has a medieval quality to it. Obviously helped by the mode used...

Quite calming, really.

@fearlessflight2014 1w

Wow, I was not prepared to hear something this haunting and beautiful from homemade instruments. There is something earthy and visceral in the textures.

@coolparadisoMod 1w

Nice steadying flute! Yup sure has that medievil feel. Really nicely layered piece, I see the dancers, bow and end!

@morganxamethyst 1w

This sounds really cool. I wish you could get cigar box guitars in Germany because I’m not good with crafting. It reminds me of some Irish or Scottish folk songs I’ve heard great work

@mikeb 1w

This is great, I could imagine a trio playing it at a Renn Faire. Nice that you can make instruments to do this!

@heather 1w

This has a medieval, Celtic feel to me - what's not to like? Not everything has to be empyrean. Sometimes it can be a humble village on market day and that's fine too.