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Elephant in the room.

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Elephant in the room.

Elephant in the room.



style or instrument: scheitholt,vocal


musician/member name: jamie snider


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"Elephant in the room".A friend asked me to give a music lesson to her autistic son who loves playing bass but without any groove...well,yesterday we jammed with the 12 bar blues!Easy to teach,repetitive.Somehow that sparked the memory of learning a new instrument,how inventive it could be before one fell into patterns,laugh. I upset the applecart with this by tuning the low D string to C,rather than the doubled unwound D strings.New ball game,full of opportunites to make mistakes and do weird stuff!Nate,you'll get the tapping-some frets if you tap you get a note on either side of the string.
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DavisJames
11/25/24 02:03:34PM @davisjames:

Yep,Nate and taking it one step further,someone(not me) might somehow plant a pickup in the fingerboard closer to the nut to amplify the sound of the extra note-but then that would take active equalization(roll off the lows) otherwise the tapping sound would be overwhelming...hmmm.An external microphone might work better.
NateBuildsToys
11/24/24 07:25:15PM @nate:

I suspect that ive just scratched the surface of the potential. For example, if you set a noter directly on the 4th fret, the area between the nut and the noter is exactly one octave higher than the area between the niter and the bridge. Because an interval of a 5th is 1/3 the length of the octave, and the octave is half the length of the string, fretting at the 4th fret is dividing the string into one section that is 2/3 its length and one section that is 1/3 its length. Therefore, since the excess area is half as long as the vibrating area, it is one octave higher and will resonate sympathetically. I suspect there are a lot more relationships like this that can be utilized.
DavisJames
11/23/24 02:08:06PM @davisjames:

NateBuildsToys:

Really cool stuff. It's very cool how tapping can cause additional notes with the area above the VSL. I suspect that if someone were very deliberate, they could craft a VSL and temperament that really takes advantage of this!

You've already done it with your instruments that resonate and match(on the otherside of the bridge) the notes on the main strings.Depending on the placement of the bridge....
NateBuildsToys
11/22/24 11:21:39PM @nate:

Really cool stuff. It's very cool how tapping can cause additional notes with the area above the VSL. I suspect that if someone were very deliberate, they could craft a VSL and temperament that really takes advantage of this!
Robin Thompson
11/21/24 04:30:35PM @robin-thompson:

Cool musical exploration, Jamie!