"Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote:

>> You are an old fart as I have said.
>> Just because it doesn't look like a piano is enough to make you claim it 
>> isn't a piano.
>> Tell the musicians that play electric violins that they aren't violins.
>
>They don't sound like violins either...

They do sound like electric violins.





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Signal wrote:
> "Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote:
> 
>>> You are an old fart as I have said.
>>> Just because it doesn't look like a piano is enough to make you claim it 
>>> isn't a piano.
>>> Tell the musicians that play electric violins that they aren't violins.
>> They don't sound like violins either...
> 
> They do sound like electric violins.
> 
> 
> 

"You would not think, to look at him, that he was famous long ago..
for playing the electric violin on Desolation, Row.."



> 
> 
> --
> S i g n a l @ l i n e o n e . n e t

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Signal  saying
something like:

>"Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote:
>
>>> You are an old fart as I have said.
>>> Just because it doesn't look like a piano is enough to make you claim it 
>>> isn't a piano.
>>> Tell the musicians that play electric violins that they aren't violins.
>>
>>They don't sound like violins either...
>
>They do sound like electric violins.

They sound bugger all like pianos, I know that much.
-- 
Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"It's a moron working with power tools.
 How much more suspenseful can you get?"
 - House

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:57:36 +0100, Grimly Curmudgeon
 wrote:

>We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>drugs began to take hold. I remember Signal  saying
>something like:
>
>>"Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote:
>>
>>>> You are an old fart as I have said.
>>>> Just because it doesn't look like a piano is enough to make you claim it 
>>>> isn't a piano.
>>>> Tell the musicians that play electric violins that they aren't violins.
>>>
>>>They don't sound like violins either...
>>
>>They do sound like electric violins.
>
>They sound bugger all like pianos, I know that much.

They don't burn as long either.

Regards,



-- 
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{who is at}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk

Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember Signal  saying
> something like:
> 
>> "Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote:
>>
>>>> You are an old fart as I have said.
>>>> Just because it doesn't look like a piano is enough to make you claim it 
>>>> isn't a piano.
>>>> Tell the musicians that play electric violins that they aren't violins.
>>> They don't sound like violins either...
>> They do sound like electric violins.
> 
> They sound bugger all like pianos, I know that much.

well played pizzicato, actually sometimes they do..

I've made electric guitars sound like clarinets in my time..you need a 
certain woddy sounding loudspeaker enclosure and a certain amount of 
even harmonic distrortion, and a bit of an artist in the thing to 
control the attack, which is a bit of a giveaway on a guitar, but the 
sustained note is very close to a reed instrument. The sound of the reed 
flapping together is duplicated by the asymmetric clipping in the 
amplifier...

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:36:39 +0100, The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c>
wrote:

>Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
>> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
>> drugs began to take hold. I remember Signal  saying
>> something like:
>> 
>>> "Dave Plowman (News)"  wrote:
>>>
>>>>> You are an old fart as I have said.
>>>>> Just because it doesn't look like a piano is enough to make you claim it 
>>>>> isn't a piano.
>>>>> Tell the musicians that play electric violins that they aren't violins.
>>>> They don't sound like violins either...
>>> They do sound like electric violins.
>> 
>> They sound bugger all like pianos, I know that much.
>
>well played pizzicato, actually sometimes they do..
>
>I've made electric guitars sound like clarinets in my time..you need a 
>certain woddy sounding loudspeaker enclosure and a certain amount of 
>even harmonic distrortion, and a bit of an artist in the thing to 
>control the attack, which is a bit of a giveaway on a guitar, but the 
>sustained note is very close to a reed instrument. The sound of the reed 
>flapping together is duplicated by the asymmetric clipping in the 
>amplifier...

You can make a sax sound like Hendrix....all you need is an overdrive
pedal, a transducer, a good amp and a pair of earplugs. Only works
from around octave G up.

Regards,



-- 
Stephen Howard - Woodwind repairs & period restorations
http://www.shwoodwind.co.uk
Emails to: showard{who is at}shwoodwind{dot}co{dot}uk