Jonny Hotnuts
10-07-2003, 10:09 AM
Thanks all for your input with the first question.
Now with question #2.
I remember a device a few years ago called something like “Aspri Reverb” (surely not spelled correctly)
This device was a small flat box (about the width of the string spacing) that would fit behind the bridge and connect near the bottom of the guitar. If I remember correctly it had “fingers” that extended outward and rested under the strings just above the bridge.
1. Has anyone ever used one and was it worth any merit.
(I know this sounds bazaar) I had a dream the other night about building a guitar that had a peg that extended into the body from the bridge (about 1.5 inch). And from this “peg” a bar that had 3 springs that came forward inside the body and connected to the inside of the neck heal. Much the way a Hammond reverb tank is. It also had a damper on the springs to “turn off the reverb” (as done in a piano).
I can also remember a logic in that the top was thinner and less bracing because it had negative tension on the sound board to offset the positive tension that was caused by the string pull (like a floating tremolo works on an electric) and making more natural volume.
It is done with pianos, why not guitars?
Is this a good idea, or am I going HOTNUTS!
THanks, -JH
Now with question #2.
I remember a device a few years ago called something like “Aspri Reverb” (surely not spelled correctly)
This device was a small flat box (about the width of the string spacing) that would fit behind the bridge and connect near the bottom of the guitar. If I remember correctly it had “fingers” that extended outward and rested under the strings just above the bridge.
1. Has anyone ever used one and was it worth any merit.
(I know this sounds bazaar) I had a dream the other night about building a guitar that had a peg that extended into the body from the bridge (about 1.5 inch). And from this “peg” a bar that had 3 springs that came forward inside the body and connected to the inside of the neck heal. Much the way a Hammond reverb tank is. It also had a damper on the springs to “turn off the reverb” (as done in a piano).
I can also remember a logic in that the top was thinner and less bracing because it had negative tension on the sound board to offset the positive tension that was caused by the string pull (like a floating tremolo works on an electric) and making more natural volume.
It is done with pianos, why not guitars?
Is this a good idea, or am I going HOTNUTS!
THanks, -JH