Re: Re: screaming guitar

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

> In a message dated 2/11/98 11:46:14 PM, you wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> Something that works better sound-wise for me but with perhaps a little 
>less
> theatrical appeal are those compressed air cans that you can readily buy 
>at
> radio shack (and elsewhere) to blow the dust from sensitive electronic 
>parts.
> They usually come with a thin plastic tube that inserts into the 
>nozzle--very
> handy for precise aiming at whatever portion of the strings you care to 
>blow
> on. Somewhere around the 12th fret usually works better for me.
> 
> Ted

That sounds good, but I'm more interested in a rig that will still allow
me to play Stick with both hands.  Probably some kind of setup where I'd
have a breath controller or tube from my mouth control the amount of
pressure coming from the air compressor to the pickup.

Perhaps an entirely new instrument would have to be designed, as Kim 
hinted at, though it would be cool to have this weird rig available to
any fretted instrument player.

cheers,

Paolo Valladolid
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