Re: Re: Re: Different EBows

[Paolo Valladolid <pvallado@waynesworld.ucsd.edu>]

> once upon a time, steinberger sound (via gibson corp's mgmt & dough) 
>funded
> the building of a prototype guitar (by bob wolstein) w/selectably 
>polyphonic,
> in-built string drivers (ie, "e-bows").
> (an additional groovic feature that was worked on was the ability to 
>sweep
> through the natural harmonic series, w/a knobule.)
> me & henry kaiser (& david lindley, methinks) shared this steinberger 
>guitar
> for a while; i had it for about 5 or 6 months.
> it was a little clunky (used an outboard power-thingy & attaching 
>cable), but:
> it rocked!, and had enormous potential.....

Was this guitar the realization of your "idea" mentioned in a 1987
Electronic Musician article?  You said you had an idea involving a
hex pickup and a way to get synthesized sounds without the inconveniences
of pitch-to-MIDI tracking, but that you couldn't talk about it at the
time. 

Or was your idea more along the lines of what is embodied today in the
Roland VG-8 (a hexaphonic digital signal processor) ?
 
If you can't respond, that's cool too.  I'm just curious.

Cheers,

Paolo Valladolid
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