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Post by vivek on May 30, 2007 14:28:58 GMT
hey michael was cool to meet you last night, was an absolutely phenomenal show heres some photos of that guitar i got made. if this doesn't work then i don't know how to add photos  |
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Post by vivek on May 30, 2007 14:30:18 GMT
k so i don't know  |
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Post by robn on May 30, 2007 14:37:59 GMT
Hi Vivek,
Are your photos posted on a host site - like Photobucket?
Once they are - click on the "insert image" icon in the "add tags" section of Post Reply (above the angry smiley) and paste the url from Photobucket (or your host) between the two sets of brackets.
Robn
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Post by Colin McCubbin on May 30, 2007 14:57:02 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on May 30, 2007 19:29:51 GMT
Hi Vivek,
It was great to meet you too. It was a wonderful show. Debashish Bhattacharya is without any doubt, a master musician. He and his brother, Subhasis, really did play some wicked stuff last night!
I would like to see pics of your guitar.....check out Colin's instructions.
Shine On,
Michael
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Post by vivek on May 31, 2007 22:42:41 GMT
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Post by Michael Messer on May 31, 2007 23:55:28 GMT
It looks amazing Vivek. Cool  Shine On, Michael |
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Post by Bill Stig on Jun 1, 2007 9:20:27 GMT
Hi Vivek,
That's an interesting instrument you've got there. Could you give us a bit more information about it, such as where you had it made and what you had to have done to it.
Loved the you tube clips.
Bill
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Post by vivek on Jun 1, 2007 10:38:06 GMT
thanks. well, mike cameron at hobgoblin music in london did it for me. basically, its an ongoing experiment, the saddle just shattered the other day so its back in there gettin reinforced in a manner similar to the nut mike tells me. the top has two bits of wood under where the sympathetics attach at each end. it bellies slightly under all the tension, but could be a lot worse and we always knew that would happen. mike remains confident that the top won't explode. he had to cut the bass end of the bridge off and attach more wood to put in extra string holes. and you can see on the neck that he put banjo tuners in for the chikari strings. it sounds quite ridiculous. well, it did. i'm gonna remove some strings.
bfore it was (bass to high)
highdrone]
highdrone
d
a
d
a double course
ddouble course
g double course
with that high fourth like a sarod
at first was easier to do full runs, but that top g lacked the tone of playing higher up on the d. allowed some more interesting polychordal techniques though, when used with the drones and taking into account the doubled top 3 courses, the instrumnent could sound remarkably like a santoor/dulcimer.
so i'm changing back to dadfad/dadf#ad/dadgad
and might lose those doubled courses. part of me wants them cos the sustain is awesome and it cries out more. but you lose the tonal purity and more varied tone of the single string. perhaps with the sympathetics it all gets a bit too muddy. it doesn't actually, it sounds orchestral. but i'll go back to singles for the time being
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Post by Bill Stig on Jun 4, 2007 12:38:30 GMT
Hi ninefingers - your pictures not coming up.
That's really interesting Vivek. I had wondered if it was possible to do such a conversion on a guitar. I seem to remember John Mclaughlin had something similar with scalloped frets - used fingerstyle rather than with a steel.
Bill
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