Pioneer musical instruments: drum bucket, sand block, washboard, cake-pan banjo, bucket bass, towel-tube kazoo and jug-band tuba.
BOYS' LIFE Oct 1970 (v.60#10) pg. 67
A simple banjo. Make a 5-string banjo with a wooden soundboard.
FINE WOODWORKING #53 Jul-Aug 1985 pg. 38
Correction FINE WOODWORKING #54 Sep-Oct 1985 pg. 8
Homemade banjo. Made from a small whiskey keg (wooden bucket), pickaxe handle, and cowhide.
MOTHER EARTH NEWS #70 Jul-Aug 1981 pg. 104
Learning to play the bluegrass banjo.
MOTHER EARTH NEWS #90 Nov-Dec 1984 pg. 54
Electronic banjo is designed around stock banjo hardware, powered by a hi-fi amplifier.
POPULAR MECHANICS Oct 1970 (v.134#4) pg. 175
Build a "banjimer" a cross between a dulcimer and a banjo.
POPULAR MECHANICS Jul 1982 (v.158#1) pg. 88
Simple brackets made from scrap wood hold guitars or banjos by their neck.
SUNSET Jan 1981 (v.166#1) pg. 77
How to make a 5-string banjo.
WORKBENCH May-Jun 1972 (v.28#3) pg. 28