The Winslanirian
I found this one on the Internet. This one is a
drum guitar, meant as addition to a drum kid. Sam Dook of The Go! Team once
mailed me with some added pics of a kind of a stairs shaped drum string
instrument he had made. This is not far from his idea, although different in
shape.
There is one good thing about this one in
particular and thatÕs the pickups on both sides of the guitar string field,
since this makes sense when you are sliding it or hitting it with drum sticks like
Liam Finn did on my drum guitars as can be seen on
YouTube at his Berlin and Amsterdam gigs in
2008. IÕm working on a somewhat similar stereo drum guitars currently and on
the stereo Moodswinger II thereÕs
also the both sided pickup configuration. If the Moodswinger scale of harmonics is added, it becomes clear on which
positions the individual divided string parts create a consonant chord
together. (All colored dots on the Moodswinger are consonant chord positions.)
The position of the bass pickup is probably great, creating a deep harp like
tone, since it it in the middle of the string.
They have incorporated the Moonlander idea of
the resonance strings, which probably is workable, because itÕs a percussion
instrument and the string will easily hum along in their own pitch.
Original post:
Published
by ez on
December 26, 2008
The
Winslanirian is an instrument designed and built by Winsow Porter and myself.
The original idea was to build a stringed addition to a drum set that could be
hit to make the open-tuned strings resonate. This evolved into its current
table-top form, which is based on prepared guitars, particularly by Yuri
LandmanÕs Moonlander.
The
Winslanirian has 11 strings: 6 guitar strings and 2 bass strings on the top,
which are playable, and 3 guitar strings on the underside of the instrument,
which are resonating. The sound is picked up using two-by-two sets of
single-coil guitar pickups, one bass humbucker, and two piezo contact
microphones between the nut/bridge and the pegs of the guitar strings.
Each pickup network has its own output jack, and so can be altered separately using a mixer. The guitar pickup network is also connected to an on-board crossfader, which balances the volume of the front and back pickup sets.
Source:
www.silentlycrashing.net/blog/2008/12/26/the-winslanirian/
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