Re: sitar sounds from your non-sitar looping device

[lance glover <baumhaus@earthlink.net>]

Andreas Willers wrote:

> "The Coral Sitar Guitar used a floating bridge to simulate the sound
> of a sitar. Someone published details of a way of fitting a metal
> block near the bridge of a guitar so that it just touched the strings
> and equally made a sitar-like sound  -  if anyone knows any more
> about this, please contact me."
>

this is *strange*, 'cause when i was just a wee lad, i used to stick a
#24 metal x-acto
knife handle (sans blade) against the bridge of my old acoustic guitar.
sure made it sound
sitar-like...

sigh...

you were probably looking for something more technical...

or loopy...

-lance g.