Chris please do! We'd love to see you quirky contraptions!
On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Kazimierz Verkmastare <[email protected]> wrote: > > Usually, someone in my shop after a few 'tasty beverages' might look at an > odd-shaped piece of wood I have left over from something, and say "You know, > if we put a few hammer-keys here, and a blow-tube across some strings here, > and double bridges like a hammered dulcimer, but leave it open on the bottom > like a kantele, but play it with a bow and build some sloped fretboards > under each string, and a few pickups and some lights and stuff, I wonder > what it would sound like? > > And by the end of the night (and a further depletion of my stock of 'tasty > beverages') we have something wierd and unique that is almost guaranteed to > be nothing like we started thinking about. > > Then we take it to Nancy (a person who not only plays everything, but > understands enough about stuf to know how to string and play even > not-invented-yet instruments) and she fiddles with it for a few minutes and > then starts giving us lessons. > > In return for which I carry home another of the myriad broken old and found > relic instruments that she has to repair and put back into operation. > > One day i am going to put a bunch of these wierd things on my website, and > let the purists of the world have a ball flaming me. > > Chris > > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 6/5/2009 at 11:31 PM Marsbar wrote: > > >"Some obscure thing"...Now I am all intrigued and excited. Give an > >example > >of an "obscure thing" you might make. > > > >Fi > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > >Behalf Of Kazimierz Verkmastare > >Sent: Friday, 5 June 2009 11:30 PM > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [HG-new] Re: #$%! string > > > > > >I'd say you have a gut string with a flaw in the middle. When I find a > >string like that, I can usually look at it under a magnifying glass and > see > >where the twist rate changed or there was a small knot in one of the > >strands > >that was there and got ground out in finish polishing.. I run in to that > >more often than you would expect, not really common, but not uncommon - I > >usually just use that string on a harp or a lyre where it is just a single > >note, or on a drone on some obscure thing I am building at the time. > > > >Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
