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Regi Wooten, brother of Victor, has a piezo bridge pickup
right next to the locking nut of his guitar. Gets the same effect as
Frith, much more elegant design. I guess he must have a conductor passing
through the neck and back to the guitar. I was gonna do that but I decided
I didn't want to mess up a good neck. Maybe a bad neck ;)
toby
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2010 12:29
AM
Subject: RE: Fred Frith headstock
pickup
Here's some info on the headstock Michael:
Frith
played a modified 1936 Gibson K-11. He added an extra pickupover the strings
at the nut, enabling him to amplify sound from both sides of the fretted note.
He then split the fretboard in two with a capo, effectively giving him two
guitars, each amplified separately that he could play independently with each
hand. To split the sounds further he attached alligator clip at various
positions on the strings. The net result was a guitar with multiple sound
sources that could be channelled to a mixer and distributed across the stereo
soundscape
> From: mp@mpeters.de
> To:
loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Fred Frith headstock
pickup
> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:42:09 +0200
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>
http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/4801bad4-1b42-4c9e-84b1-bf61067ab67c
>
> I couldn't find any useful information about the extra headstock
pickup Fred
> Frith uses sometimes. Does anyone know anything? a URL
perhaps? I wonder if
> this is something that could be useful for
me.
>
> -Michael
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