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Dulcimers

PrincessTast...	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 1:39 AM Just for the heck of it. I like the sound of 'em.
EchoMinor	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 3:49 AM ya know what i like the sound of? sitar! you can buy an electronic sitar at musiciansfriend, tempted to get one
EvilPicnic	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 10:30 AM An electric sitar? Hmmmm... Is that the one which isn't actually a sitar, just a guitar with some sympathetic strings? The most awesome thing about the (real) sitar (other than the sound)is the way the frets are movable, so they can be set up for really weird scales with quartertones and things.
zedsalt	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 10:58 AM I just got a dulcimer a couple months ago, and I've been playing the bejeebers out of it. Y'know what it kind of sounds like when one tunes it slack enough for the strings to buzz? It kind of sounds like a sitar!
PrincessTast...	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 11:13 AM That's very interesting...
MinisterofSc...	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 12:09 PM I was tempted to buy one of the electric sitars too...but I don't have any money. Nore a job. Patrick. How much was the dulcimer, zed?
EchoMinor	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 4:00 PM evil the electronic sitar uses pickups made in india designed especially to produce the sitar sound. the pickup accually lightly touches the strings somewhere producing the sitar type sound. they look like extra skinny telecaster bridge pickups
MinisterofSc...	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 4:48 PM oh! neat! So it's not a bunch of crap!
shadowself	Date: March 17, 2006 @ 9:26 PM I wanna get a hammered dulcimer. They sound soooo amazing and Genesisy.
EvilPicnic	Date: March 18, 2006 @ 9:16 AM hey hey, I didn't it was a bunch of crap. They're fun to play and do actually sound quite sitarish. It doesn't look amzingly sitarish, though. In fact, it looks like a guitar with a load of sympathetic strings, hence my post.
gurdonark	Date: March 18, 2006 @ 10:08 AM I've had a lot of fun with my mountain dulcimers. They're easy to play, and they can be morphed with samplers into fun thihngs.
zedsalt	Date: March 18, 2006 @ 11:10 AM My folks found the dulcimer at Wally World for $30, marked down from $60. The buzziness of the electric sitar comes from a spring-loaded bridge, based on the '60s Coral/Danelectro design (for studio great Vinnie Bell). The pickups on the current repros are also modelled after cheap, old equipment- namely, the famous/infamous "lipstick case pickup" (The coils and Alnico magnets were originally housed in actual lipstick containers...well, two of the same end of a lipstick container glued together). There was a small guitar company who made instruments featuring the "buzz-o-matic" bridge and even the bridge as a retrofit, but I don't know if they're still in business. "Genesisy" is a really cool word.
GeneHilbert	Date: March 18, 2006 @ 11:14 AM I kinda like it myself......
PrincessTast...	Date: April 3, 2006 @ 1:57 AM Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out!

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