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Niels Andrews


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Post  Posted 26 Oct 2012 1:39 pm    
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Check this out! http://youtu.be/3893IDTSAfw
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Dave Hopping


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Post  Posted 26 Oct 2012 3:04 pm    
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He'd need two mechanisms,one for the strings,another for the pedals/knee levers.A whole lot more engineering than I could even think about,but it looks doable in theory.
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Niels Andrews


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Post  Posted 26 Oct 2012 5:41 pm    
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I think it could work, but it would take two.
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John Limbach

 

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Post  Posted 27 Oct 2012 5:15 am    
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Might work for lap steel but the range of tunings would have to be within what the particular string gauges could handle.
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Niels Andrews


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Post  Posted 27 Oct 2012 6:24 am    
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Tt would work great on a lap steel. It most likely works off of a tensiometer any ways to determine pitch. I think it opens some interesting possibilities to change from E/9 to C/7 to ? with the press of a button. Shocked
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Jeff Scott Brown


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Post  Posted 27 Oct 2012 6:44 am    
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Niels Andrews wrote:
It most likely works off of a tensiometer any ways to determine pitch.


I don't know if that is correct or not. Around the 2:15 mark, I think the guy in the video says that their system is picking the sound up directly from the pickup. Is that how you interpret his comments?



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Stephen Cowell


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Round Rock, Texas, USA
Post  Posted 27 Oct 2012 7:39 am    
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I'm seeing what looks like a hexaphonic pickup near the bridge, like a Roland synth pickup. This would make the job much easier and, in fact, possible.
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Niels Andrews


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Post  Posted 27 Oct 2012 8:10 am    
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I probably used the wrong term, what I meant is that it appears to remember any tuning you place on it, so I don't know what logic they are using, but the strings move it is not a matter of altering the pitch after it is played via the pick up. So I don't think it is tuning to pitch as much as a previous position. But I have to admit I am just guessing, anyways it is cool!
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