>If I understand what your trying to do, it would be easier with a e-bow.
>It's all I use to play guitar. You can gat crazy harmonics and feedback if
>you abuse it enough. Michael Brook has a system called infinite guitar that
>works as an e-bow under all the strings so you can sustain chords.
>Fernandes makes guitars with the sustainer system that does the same thing,
>it's on my wish list. There's also something called a sustainiac, I think
>it's like the sustainer. The e-bow is why I want a pitch-to-cv converter,
>oh The noise I could make...
From: Celeste H <
celesteh@...>
>Reply-To: motm@egroups.com
>To: motm <motm@egroups.com>
>Subject: [motm] stupid electronics tricks
>Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:13:05 -0600 (CST)
>
>
>i was listening to Alvin Lucier's _Music on a Long Thin Wire_ and i got
>the idea that it might be possible to run the output from MOTM modules
>down guitar strings (Solder the tip of a plug to an aligator clip attached
>to the string by the guitar head, solder ground to a aligator clip
>attached to the bridge) and that perharps the fluctuating signal along
>the wire would cause the magnets in the pickups to bounce around and thus
>generate a signal out through the guitar's jack.
>
>Questions:
>
>Will this hurt the MOTM?
>Will this hurt the guitar?
>Could this harm somebody holding the guitar? (i was going to play some
>led zepplin but i got a huge shock when i touched the strings!)
>
>Should I put a resistor in here someplace?
>
>Is there a way to electrically seperate the current running down the
>guitar string from the MOTM so that doing something weird like dropping
>the guitar in a bathtub full of saltwater would not hurt the MOTM? Or
>would it not get hurt anyway?
>
>Is this how spring reverb works? (now with string reverb!)
>
>thanks,
>Celeste
>
>
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