>Del, Ralph -- > >That hard, huh? > >Really, if what you want is vibrato, all you need to do is to alter one >string of each unison. > >If you're willing to take a little time, instead of just pulling one lever, >you could alter each note, one at a time, by pivoting some kind of wedge >used in place of the front bridge pin on one string per note. Alternately, >there could be a separate rod just behind the capo, with notches to allow >two strings per unison to pass, which would shorten the third string. That >might be done gang-fashion, if one weren't too picky about the speed of the >vibrato. > Sort of a wa-Wapin huh? >Alternately, perhaps there could be a way to make one string have a wobbly >termination, like a loose bridge pin, on demand. > There is, but you need at least one other person to run the torch. >I remember seeing a tuning idea on some instruments such as hammer >dulcimers or stringed instruments from India. In the back length of a >string there is a bead large enough to deflect the string (which runs >through it.) One can fine-tune the string by sliding the bead. I bet that >would work on pianos, in the tail length. That way one could tune the >vibrato to whatever speed one wished. The first time I saw one of these tuning systems, I was really impressed. What a great example of getting a high-tech result from a low-tech approach. Mr Cage, however, would want a few in the speaking segments too. > >If anybody is smart enough to market this idea, they are smart enough to be >rich enough not to bother! You've gotta be smart to be rich? Shazbatt! Here I sit, doomed to poverty. > >Well, we have almost a year to work it out ... is "keep on inventing" our >version of "keep on truckin'"? > >Susan > >P.S. Imagine how mad Mother Nature might be about this one! What arguments >about the speed of vibrato, and whether it should change for different >registers! <g> DANGER WILL ROBINSON! > >------------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Nossaman
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