I'm not a mechanical person (you might have guessed)
but it could be a funny instrument to make
and some mad bastard is going to want to perform with it.
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:15,
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and some mad bastard is going to want to perform with it.
It had also occurred to me that you could make a modern powered version.
Small beads of steel in plastic discs, same actuating method, but use
standard guitar pickups fed to a conventional amplifier. If you used
beads of the same mass as the part of a string inside the pickup's
capture zone the result would sound pretty close to a normal guitar.
edit: BTW for any geeks out there.
Tone-Wheel organs use a variation on that idea.
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Thu 27 Aug 2009, 2:28,
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standard guitar pickups fed to a conventional amplifier. If you used
beads of the same mass as the part of a string inside the pickup's
capture zone the result would sound pretty close to a normal guitar.
edit: BTW for any geeks out there.
Tone-Wheel organs use a variation on that idea.