Several things:
I had a friend who would play his bass with a, um, vibrator. Very
interesting, as the guitar pickup picks up the vibrations of the motor
inside.
Also, another acquaintance would stick a batttery operated tv (back when
they were fairly large) up to the pickups of his bass. Yet another weird
sound.
Me personally, here's my thing: if your guitar is feeding back (I recommend
using a compressor pedal to avoid excessive hearing loss),
you can sing or scream into the pickup & some sound will travel through the
pickups to the amp. I also played my casio sk5 into the pickups, & that
came through great.
As for elhardt's thing of using a cello body with a synth patch: I have
been thinking along these lines myself. A preliminary observation:
I mic'ed an autoharp while I played sax to pick up its string vibrations as
I played. Not the greatest effect in the world. The only way I can see
using an istrument with strings is if they're fretted
to go along with the sound source vibrating them.
Also, I plan to use a messed up acoustic guitar as a resonating body. I'll
report back when I get that all working.
Oh, and all of this sort of reminded me of a webpage that dexcribes how to
make a spring reverb from a slinky-can't remember the address, but it looked
amusing.
tomr
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