Experimental luthier
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Experimental luthiers are luthiers who take part in alternative stringed instrument manufacturing (such as the guitar or violin) or create original string instruments altogether.
Plucked instruments
In the
In recent years, multiscale or fanned frets guitars and basses have started to emerge, as manufactured by Novax Guitars, Ormsby Guitars, and others. These instruments are supposed to offer an advantage over the classical fixed-scale guitars and basses by providing more freedom in setting the tension of each string at the design and manufacturing phases. This may produce a more uniform tension of the strings, and timbre and tonal characteristics differing from the usual fixed-scale instruments.
In the 1980s, Canadian
The Gittler guitar is an experimental designed guitar created[when?] by Allan Gittler (1928–2003), who proposed that "sentimental" design references to acoustic guitars are unnecessary in an electronically amplified guitar, and designed his instrument with the objective of reducing the electric guitar to the most minimal functional form possible. He made 60 guitars in New York from the mid-1970s to early 1980s.
In 2003, the Tritare was created by Samuel Gaudet and Claude Gauthier in Canada.[further explanation needed]
In 2006,
Les Luthiers builds home made absurd comedic instruments and plays them in their presentations.
Bowed instruments
The
The Japanese multiinstrumentalist and experimental musical instrument builder Yuichi Onoue developed a
Other
The most well-known example of a multistringed tapped instrument is probably[according to whom?] the Chapman Stick, developed in the early 1970s by Emmett Chapman.[citation needed] The Warr Guitar and the Kelstone (from Belgium) are alternative instruments that also function on the same playing technique; that is, tapping on the strings with both hands.[citation needed] The Chapman Stick is tuned in perfect fourths and perfect fifths.
See also
- Experimental musical instrument
- New Interfaces for Musical Expression
- Electric Guitar Design
- Prepared guitar
- Tailed bridge guitar
Gallery
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Les Claypool playing the Whamola
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Iner Souster
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Neptune (band) with their custom made instruments
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Yuri Landman, Moodswinger, 2006
References
- ^ "Meet the Luthier Who Built a Harp Guitar With 42 Strings, Two Sound Holes and Four Necks". She Shreds Magazine. 2016-08-11. Archived from the original on 2019-01-17. Retrieved 2019-04-26.
- ^ Yuichi Onoue's Kaisatsuko on hypercustom.com Archived 2015-11-08 at the Wayback Machine