More String Behind The Bridge



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More String Behind The Bridge

Postby Phosphene Audio » Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:09 am

I saw there was a thread about the Harmonic Complexity guitar, which is way cool.

Has anyone done any experimenting with any kind of "third bridge" guitars?


I bought this old Kay at a junk shop, with dead pickups and no bridge, and when I cobbled it back together, I moved the tailpiece to the end of the guitar to get more string length on the wrong side, to get a low rent Hans Reichel effect going:




Similarly, I silicone glued a pickup to a capo to use at the headstock of another guitar:

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Re: More String Behind The Bridge

Postby Phosphene Audio » Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:12 am

Hans Reichel was the king of this stuff.

Here is a pdf of a Guitar Player article with diagrams of his guitars:

https://www.sendspace.com/file/f7itn6



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reichel
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Re: More String Behind The Bridge

Postby Phosphene Audio » Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:14 am

more screwing around with the Kay:

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