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Dandolin wrote:for the tenor curious:
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I saw that and am very tempted, but having just bought the mandocello, I definitely can't justify spending that much
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Do Tanpuras count?
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I put this sintir/guembri inspired thing together, using an oak dowel, an old test equipment chassis and weed wacker cord as strings. I just had .065 cord around the house and it's on both strings now, but I am going to pick up some .090 cord for the lower string, since the experiment seems to have worked. I'll add a piezo pickup as well.


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That sounds great! Piezo should be very fun with that :thumb:
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:love: The Dr. K tenor is awesome. :love:
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I put two different gauges of thicker strings on the fake Sintir, really surprised how well the weed wacker cord works:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_S8cmVj11r ... _copy_link
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Phosphene Audio wrote:I put two different gauges of thicker strings on the fake Sintir, really surprised how well the weed hacker cord works:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_S8cmVj11r ... _copy_link
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i actually love instruments with super short sustain like this, what kind of "strings" are those?
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Dowi wrote:
Phosphene Audio wrote:I put two different gauges of thicker strings on the fake Sintir, really surprised how well the weed hacker cord works:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_S8cmVj11r ... _copy_link
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i actually love instruments with super short sustain like this, what kind of "strings" are those?


It's weed wacker cord, .080 and .095.
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Phosphene Audio wrote:
Dowi wrote:
Phosphene Audio wrote:I put two different gauges of thicker strings on the fake Sintir, really surprised how well the weed hacker cord works:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_S8cmVj11r ... _copy_link
:love:
i actually love instruments with super short sustain like this, what kind of "strings" are those?


It's weed wacker cord, .080 and .095.
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my sweetie bought me a 12-button autoharp off of Facebook yard sale or whatever they call it. i'm looking forward to messing with it now that i got the tuning wrench off eBay. if i get significantly into it i might buy a second one and cannibalize the bars and cut new felt blocks to have more chords available so i can adapt it to play in a particular key; this one seems biased towards F.
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hopefully some (well-heeled?) from California norteno snags this and gets their Sylvius Leopold Weiss on. (but if you plan on getting your Tuck Andress on, please keep it in the quarantine room)
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Lately Etsy really wants to recommend I buy either a Saxon lyre, a lute, or a vielle (proto-violin)

In the past I’d been searching for a pocket violin (sometimes called a dance teacher’s violin I think) but I’m not sure that I’m gonna be able to make a weird, bowed instrument do what I want. Also debated one of those bowed lap violin things (I’ve forgotten the name) to play Banner Saga soundtrack type music on.
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