DIY

TELEPHONY

THE DISEMBODIED VOICE OF

JUDY GARLAND SPEAKS!

How to make a Ghost Phone.

By Greg MacLaurin

Currently, I’m obsessed with analog telephones.

Photography by Greg MacLaurin

I don’t know why. My last obsession was with the severed hands of mummies, but let’s not get into that. Today it’s phones. And these Ghost Phones are fun. The idea is simple: hide an MP3 player and its headphone inside an old analog telephone, and you can listen to someone talking to you! 1. Record audio and load

But before we start unscrewing things willy-nilly, the MP3 player. let’s take a moment to find out about analog phones 1a. Decide which ghost you want to summon. Think and how they work. (I hate reinventing the wheel. of who the ghost is, and who they’re talking to. Set I’m all into research.) Privateline.com has a good a scene. All my Ghost Phones are first-person: the history of telephone technology, and HowStuff- ghost totally monopolizes the conversation, and Works has a technical overview at howstuffworks. never lets you get a word in edgewise. Even though com/ telephone.htm. Remember, these are just the ghost might ask a question, they either answer starting points. Please do your own research; you’ll it for you or they just continue talking.

learn something amazing in the process.

Now that you’ve become a font of information on analog telephones, you’re ready to modify one. Here are my instructions for making a Judy Garland Ghost Phone.

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