How to Decorate Your New Musical Instrument

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"AMANDA CLAIRE: So, I've actually kind of already jumped ahead with the decorating. One thing that a lot of circuit benders like to do is, "Hey, if you've modified the inside, why not modify the outside?" and just really make it kind of catch people's eye and know that there's something a little bit unusual about it. So, you can do this any way you want, I mean there's absolutely no rules or parameters. I mean, in this case I used a Sharpie marker to kind of color in all these animals and I did some squiggles here with Sharpie marker. I found some stickers that had some names on them, and I just kind of cut them up in to kind of these random letters, so, kind of both here and here and--I don't know it's just kind of what I want to do. I put a little window here with kind of this little symbol inside. It's just kind of aesthetically interesting. And so, now, someone will look at this and be able to tell that there's something not quite right with that kid's toy, and of course if they turn it on they will be correct. So, there we have it. I'm gonna--personally I'm going to call this a finished circuit bent project, and I'm going to plug it in into the amp--it's already plugged into the the amp, and then we'll have to try it out."