mechanical guitar funkiness

[Phosphene Audio]

Some of Christian Blandhoel's creations may apply. I think I first heard of him on the FB Ugly Guitars group. Here is a PDF catalog of a bunch of his stuff:



https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/read/ ... talog-2021

I follow him on Instagram and brought him up in the hack thread awhile ago. I absolutely love his ridiculous creations. I’ve never seen that pdf though

He's having them printed to order, for something like $35, not sure of the quality.

[niftyprose]

From the Museum of Fine Arts and via our 'nothing new under the sun' department:

https://collections.mfa.org/objects/50285

It's worth mentioning that keyboard instruments like the harpsichord borrowed expressive techniques from plucked instruments, so Smith's Patent Box (Gizmotron ancestor?) could be regarded as 'paying back'.

[K2000]

Do New Complexity guitars fit in this thread? Pretty sure I learned about them here on ILF.



http://www.newcomplexity.com.au

(My old Mac Pro did not like that Christian Blandhoel PDF link... actually shut itself down...)

[MrNovember]

I would say that New Complexity definitely fits this thread. A bit more complex (haha) than the other things here of course, but they look like amazing instruments. My sister was living in Australia for awhile and I tried to convince her to bring one back for me; unfortunately, they were a bit outside my budget at the time

[MrNovember]

So I 3D printed a Passerelle style bridge and it's really fun to play:

The model I found has a pretty good radius to it, so it's pretty nice for bowing too. Currently, I have it on my Gretsch, which is high-strung, but I think I might restring it back to normal to experiment more