I have a project on hold that is an LP with a khaler tremolo and a piezo fitted to the wood under this to give some of this effect. There is a particularly nice combination of piezo (giving a sharp percussive attack) and electric (smoother, rounder tone) that this kind of hybrid instrument can produce. However.I like the idea of a guitar like the parker that integrates the acoustic and electric elements. Also, you may need to travel a long frustrating road (look at the sustainer thread!) There are lots of little improvements perhaps that people can make but it is hard to be "new" unless you are prepared to step right out of conventional technologies and have a particular goal in mind.IMHO. You can make your own preamp, or mixer type circuits.there are a few about.Īs for "new".not a lot new really. There is also a different range of sounds from a raw piezo and it generally requires quite a bit of tone shaping.that's why you generally see a fair amount of EQ's in piezo systems. There are massive impedance mismatches and this needs to be corrected electronically with a preamp or buffer on the piezo at least. However, there is not and "easy out" piezo's and magnetic pickups are completely different beasts. I had some interesting success with putting a piezo in the neck pocket of a strat for instance. You routinely find solid body electric violins and many electrics have piezos and mags of various sorts (peavy, parker, ghost saddles, etc) and many have made their own. The guitar might have more "sustain" than a lot of hoolow bodies that you are used to hear an acoustic guitar from. Obviously you can add piezos to magnetic pickups and piezos, especially bridge mounted piezos work primarily from the vibrations at the bridge for the strings directly.so a solid body is not a problem. Nice nylon there Billm90 (unfortunately can't post pic directly) I hope to someday move from eBay to a more suitable web prescience and offer the same products at a more reasonable price point.George BrownPennington Luthier SupplyPLS I am moving to metal work to round off my skill set as a builder of guitars and to learn tooling production as evident by the fret bender I sell on eBay (now sold by LMI not available on ebay).I have started selling guitar parts only because I believe the guitar industry is already saturated with enough builders. I have well equipped shop able to produce anything from fine furniture to production runs of instruments. I have also worked in the business machine field as well as in IT (Computer support) for several Major publishing companies. I have run production shops (not in the luthier field) and designed production tools for small companies in need. My luthier interests are only a small portion of my woodworking skills. I worked on 48th street in NYC in the late 70's with the likes of Ken Parker the founder of Parker Guitars.
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