Re: marimba, kalimba, steel drum sounds

["Jesse Kudler" <jkudler@wesleyan.edu>]

Which springs?  Do you mean inside the guitar?  Or on the pickups?

-Jesse

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt McCabe <mattm@bi-tech.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 1997 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: marimba, kalimba, steel drum sounds


>> From: Len Seligmanby way of Kim Flint <seligman@mitre.org>
>
>> I'm a looping guitarist/vocalist that plays with a looping electric
>> violinist/vocalist. Additional sounds/textures I'd like to bring in
>include
>> marimbas, kalimbas (African thumb piano), and steel drums. Any
>suggestions
>> about effects that could be used to get these or related sounds from an
>> electric guitar or violin?
>
>Try putting tiny alligator clips on your springs at various positions.  
>You
>can get some weird ringy/gongish/percussive sounds depending on where you
>place the clips.  I purchased a pack of 12 clips at Radio Shack for less
>than 4 bucks.  They come in different sizes but I went with the smallest.
>
>Matt
>
>