Go play a piano with the sustain pedal depressed. It's essentially the same
thing. Not only to the struck strings sustain, but the rest of the undamped
strings also resonate. In fact, a patent was filed for a reverb system based
on this. I remember reading about the patent just after I'd come up with the
idea myself, probably in the early '80s.
CGS
>And to expand on this idea a little further: I plan to tune the
>strings on the guitar to an open tuning (say, Open D) and then play a
>sequence in the same key through the thing. I think the acoustic
>drone of the strings will add (if I can believe what I'm hearing in my
>head) and incredibly interesting background. I just hope the strings
>don't overwhelm the sound from the synth, but we'll see...
>
>Mike
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