Hmmm.. A guitar string has resisitance... I wonder... What if you had a CV circuit where the positive end was connected to a guitar string, and that guitar string was streched over a metal strip of the same length connected to the negative end... As you pressed the guitar string to make contact with the metal strip wouldn't the amount of resitance increase and decrease as you moved up a down the string... Would we be able to create a psuedo ribbon controller? Just thinking about Del Dettmars axe again...
Al
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Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: [motm] RE: stupid electronics tricks
In a message dated 12/28/00 11:37:57 AM, jlarryh@... writes:
<< A quick check of an electric guitar I have here yeild from 2 to 6 ohms for
the key-string-bridge-string-key round trip depending on whether you use
big strings or little ones. >>
That's 2 to 6 ohms DC resistance. The key would be to check the impedance of
the strings at the frequency being used. I would bet that a string is
essentially a non-inductive conductor in an AC circuit.
Ivan