mounting homebrew contact mic

[James Husted]

At 12:07 PM +0200 9/9/99, Martin Czech wrote:
>:::Also an
>:::experiment with transducers and pianos with the pedals held down - very
>
>This must sound very good, I only tryed it acoustically, shouting into the
>strings with pedal held down gives quite good reverbation, even echos.

The best of this effect is done with speakers fired into a piano with
electronic (non-acoustic) pickups. Un a cheaper scale get an electric
autoharp or zither (in a pinch a 12-string guitar or two stung pitched in
octaves) and fire the speakers at em. Record the pure sympathetic output.
Basicaly this is what gives a sitar it's sound. Under the frets are strings
tuned to each fret position. These strings are *very* tight and when the
note is played (only one note at a time is played on a sitar) the
un-fretted string vibrated "in sympathy" and rings on.  If you can find som
old Heppinstill pickups your in luck.
-James

James Husted
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