Re: screaming guitar

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

This may be old hat for you guys but I discovered I could get a sound on
my Chapman Stick by blowing on the pickups.  Now it's kind of awkward to
try to play my Stick while blowing on a pickup; it puts me in weird
positions and I'm sure anyone who sees me would think I'm performing
a perverted oral activity on my Stick.

So I thought it would be cool to have a plastic or rubber tube rigged
so I could play Stick in the normal position yet be able to blow some
air onto my Stick pickups at the same time.  I posted this idea to
the Stick list and Harvey Starr (inventor of the Ztar, Zboard, and
Microzone microtonal MIDI controller) suggested using the kind of tubing  
one uses for aquariums and some kind of air pump/valves/whatever to 
"amplify" 
the breath.  Without the help of an air compressor or something like that
I have to blow fairly hard at the pickup.

Cheers,

Paolo Valladolid
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