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Jeff Highland
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New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 13 Feb 2021 7:05 pm |
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Not a full scratch build but used a raw Pitbull Body with some mods and built the neck etc
21 String Mohan Veena Indian slide guitar.
4 melody strings
5 drone strings
12 sympathetic strings.
I've never actually held one before so working from pictures and working out the geometry was quite difficult.
The ultrathin pickup works on both the strings above it and the sympathetic strings underneath.
This is a working guitar for me so finish is straight off the nozzle lacquer without much attention to grain fill
I currently have the melody strings tuned to GDad bottom to top.
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1949 Supro Supreme
1950 National New Yorker
2008 Highland Baritone Weissenborn
2020 Highland New Yorker.
2020 Highland Mohan Veena
2021 Highland Weissencone |
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 13 Feb 2021 7:27 pm
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Impressive...as a sitarist of the Imdadkhani gharana and a steel guitarist of the, I guess, Waikiki school, I haven't yet explored this delightful middle ground, but I look forward to, at some point!
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David Matzenik
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Cairns, on the Coral Sea
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Posted 14 Feb 2021 12:18 pm
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Does it stay in tune?
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Jeff Highland
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 14 Feb 2021 12:41 pm
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| Does it stay in tune? |
After the first 4 days settling in it seems to be holding tune quite well
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Duesenberg Fairytale
1949 Supro Supreme
1950 National New Yorker
2008 Highland Baritone Weissenborn
2020 Highland New Yorker.
2020 Highland Mohan Veena
2021 Highland Weissencone |
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Nic Neufeld
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Kansas City, Missouri
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Posted 14 Feb 2021 1:03 pm
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How is the jawari on the sympathetics? Nice sizzle, easily actuated? I did some adjusting of my main string jawari bridge on an old instrument once and it was harrowing, not having the experience to really know when its right (I eventually went to an instrument with delrin bridges that need much less maintenance...doffs cap to Tony Karasek, a wizard at that stuff).
I've mostly-idly thought about doing an electric version of this...taraf, chikari, main strings, but with separate pickups for main and chikari so you could blend in just the right amount. However, with the ultra thin pickup between the two, I realize you could also build in some kind of physical blend adjustment, by maybe adding a thumbwheel type height adjustment (such as you see on some archtop bridges) for the pickup legs. Taraf screaming too loud, move it up, too dry and no resonance, move it down...
Very cool though, I wish I was handy enough to give it a shot but I'd make a dogs breakfast of it for sure.
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Waikīkī, at night when the shadows are falling
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Jeff Highland
From:
New South Wales, Australia
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Posted 14 Feb 2021 2:28 pm
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I have not got that sizzle on the sympathetics yet, will need some adjustment to the bridge slope,
The pickup is mounted on foam blocks so there is some adjustment available, but close as possible to the sympathetics seems good wth more space to the playing strings to allow for some depression when barred
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Duesenberg Fairytale
1949 Supro Supreme
1950 National New Yorker
2008 Highland Baritone Weissenborn
2020 Highland New Yorker.
2020 Highland Mohan Veena
2021 Highland Weissencone |
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Travis Brown
From:
Florida, USA
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Posted 14 Feb 2021 4:42 pm
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Allan Revich
From:
Victoria, BC
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Posted 14 Feb 2021 5:10 pm
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It looks amazing! I’m looking forward to hearing it played, once you have it dialed in.
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Current Tunings:
6 String | G – G B D G B D
7 String | G6 – e G B D G B D (re-entrant)
https://papadafoe.com/lap-steel-tuning-database |
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