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More String Behind The Bridge

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:09 am
by Phosphene Audio
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:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl-LoIa5c8U[/youtube]


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

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBfwSOMZMzI[/youtube]

Re: More String Behind The Bridge

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:12 am
by Phosphene Audio
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

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qh2kOpPlXk[/youtube]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reichel

Re: More String Behind The Bridge

Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2014 6:14 am
by Phosphene Audio
more screwing around with the Kay:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww85IIPBweo[/youtube]