Guitar
- New Complexity (part 1): The Harmonic Master
guitarz.blogspot.com I often have the feeling that Australia is where things happen nowadays when it comes to our favorite subject: guitars! Several of my favorite websites / blogs / Facebook pages emanate from Oz, and they show passionate innovative...
- Tikanta Benincaso Featuring Three Necks, 34 Strings, Fernandes Sustainer, Graphtech Ghost Acouctic/midi System...
guitarz.blogspot.com: Well, this is certainly a very eye-catching instrument. I'll allow the luthier responsible for this remarkable creation tell you more: My name is Michele Benincaso, born in 1976 , I'm an Italian luthier and I live in Stockholm...
- 21-string Maestro Harp Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's something that might be of interest to anyone who's ever wanted to delve into the world of harp guitars, or instruments with sympathetic and/or plucked strings allowing potential for a whole bunch of unusual tunings....
- Cubist 10-string Classical Guitar Built By Juan Garcia Ojeda In Las Palmas Spain In 1957!
guitarz.blogspot.com: I do hope that this 10-string classical guitar does not sound as boxy as it looks. According to the information on the label inside the soundhole it was built by Juan Garcia Ojeda in Las Palmas Spain in 1957. I have to wonder if...
- John Mcgalughlin Amazes Us All With His Thoughts, Words And Monsterous Technique!
I have never been a big fan of John McGlaughlin's playing but I've always thought he had amazing technique. I remember listening to his guitar duets with Carlos Santana on Love, Devotion, and Surrender when I was in college and thinking...
Guitar
New Complexity's Reso-Harp and Harmonic Master
I usually don't post about other people's guitars but I've been following for some years the remarkable work of Lewis Waters, the man behind New Complexity - a guitar company located in Melbourne, Australia (so unfortunately I never had the opportunity to try one of his instruments...) I posted already about them on Guitarz - here, here and here.
Lewis is mostly busy with expanding the range of acoustic sounds one can get out of an electric guitar. He built several instruments with third bridges and pickups amplifying harmonics that are usually hidden within the main sound. New Complexity's new instrument, the Resonant Harp Guitar, adds ten sympathetic strings to the usual six strings, activated by a Sustainiac (electromagnetic sustainer system that keeps the string vibrating endlessly) responding to the main pickups.
Lewis is mostly busy with expanding the range of acoustic sounds one can get out of an electric guitar. He built several instruments with third bridges and pickups amplifying harmonics that are usually hidden within the main sound. New Complexity's new instrument, the Resonant Harp Guitar, adds ten sympathetic strings to the usual six strings, activated by a Sustainiac (electromagnetic sustainer system that keeps the string vibrating endlessly) responding to the main pickups.
There is also an updated version of the Harmonic Master with an angled tuning bridge that allows to tune the strings behind the main bridge - that can used either for the harmonics or as a small harp. The different string portions have their own pickups and outputs and can be amplified and effected independently.
I hope that someday a contemporary music composer (someone reading this blog maybe) will notice Lewis' instruments and compose pieces specially for them and exploit all their possibilities - though they would also fit very well for psychedelic pop - or whatever music that will come in the future, inspired by these guitars (remember that telecasters were created for country music, but spawned unexpected music styles!)
- New Complexity (part 1): The Harmonic Master
guitarz.blogspot.com I often have the feeling that Australia is where things happen nowadays when it comes to our favorite subject: guitars! Several of my favorite websites / blogs / Facebook pages emanate from Oz, and they show passionate innovative...
- Tikanta Benincaso Featuring Three Necks, 34 Strings, Fernandes Sustainer, Graphtech Ghost Acouctic/midi System...
guitarz.blogspot.com: Well, this is certainly a very eye-catching instrument. I'll allow the luthier responsible for this remarkable creation tell you more: My name is Michele Benincaso, born in 1976 , I'm an Italian luthier and I live in Stockholm...
- 21-string Maestro Harp Guitar
guitarz.blogspot.com: Here's something that might be of interest to anyone who's ever wanted to delve into the world of harp guitars, or instruments with sympathetic and/or plucked strings allowing potential for a whole bunch of unusual tunings....
- Cubist 10-string Classical Guitar Built By Juan Garcia Ojeda In Las Palmas Spain In 1957!
guitarz.blogspot.com: I do hope that this 10-string classical guitar does not sound as boxy as it looks. According to the information on the label inside the soundhole it was built by Juan Garcia Ojeda in Las Palmas Spain in 1957. I have to wonder if...
- John Mcgalughlin Amazes Us All With His Thoughts, Words And Monsterous Technique!
I have never been a big fan of John McGlaughlin's playing but I've always thought he had amazing technique. I remember listening to his guitar duets with Carlos Santana on Love, Devotion, and Surrender when I was in college and thinking...