MGM
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After watching this guy I wonder how else could a ukulele be made LOL
http://www.wimp.com/coolestmen/
http://www.wimp.com/coolestmen/
After watching this guy I wonder how else could a ukulele be made LOL
http://www.wimp.com/coolestmen/
man that was totally WILD. gee, how good was that...off to his website...
Wow! Apparently almost any tube can make music when you stick a clarinet mouthpiece onto it and put it into the hands of a talented musician.
Okay, MGM was musing on how it might inspire ukulele design. . .
I'm thinking: put a round length-wise bore through the neck (like a truss-rod channel under the fingerboard), mount a transverse fife mouthpiece at the base of the peghead just above the nut (coaxial with the bore), and drill seven appropriately sized and spaced holes down the center of the fretboard (and a thumbhole from underneath). Then you're ready for "flute" solos between uke riffs.
Okay, maybe instead design it for a diatonic scale like a pennywhistle (or even a pentatonic scale) in order to make the holes a little more ergonomically accessible. For that matter, it would probably work better with a (very un-ukely) radiused fingerboard.
Or perhaps, instead of putting the fingerholes through the fretboard, rotate it 90 degrees along the axis and put the holes out the treble side of the neck. However, balance would be an issue: it would want to rotate away from you.
Well, how's this? . . . As above, but the mouthpiece is angled away from the peghead and the fingerholes (except for the octave thumbhole) are along the back of the neck. Mouthpiece could be whatever: single-reed, double-reed, whistle fipple, or maybe even bugle. Similarly, hole spacing could be piccolo clarinet, woodwind cornette, pennywhistle, recorder, eastern five-hole, etc.
Or maybe the video suggests to us that we should be doing more with our fingers to modify a sound vibration that has already been set in motion. Perhaps ukuleles just need valves on the bodies to modify string harmonics and overtones. Tremelo (that is, real tremelo...not the vibrato on an electric guitar that was erroneously termed tremelo) effect would be really easy.
It would be interesting to see how a steel hollow neck
with flute type holes at the frets, with air blown through the neck, would sound.
It would have to come out the end, or out the soundhole.
that guy could make a fart sound cool!