Man playing a hand-made, electrified, one-stringed musical instrument in New York's Central Park

By at 2:19 pm Monday, Apr 6


I met this man in New York's Central Park. He was playing an electrified one-stringed instrument he had built himself. He couldn't speak English very well, but I showed him a photo of my 3-stringed dronestick, and he nodded in approval. I want to make one!

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Mark Frauenfelder

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