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12-20-08, 11:30 PM
...musical instrument, that is.
Today's selection is the PENCILINA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAmFNKb1L8g&eurl=http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om02000.html
Bradford Reed fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, an original instrument of his own design and construction. The pencilina is an electric board zither played primarily by striking the strings with sticks; also by plucking and bowing. Bradford first created it around 1985, and has continued to refine it. (“It just keeps developing," he says.) The basic form is of two boards mounted parallel to each other on a stand, like extended guitar necks with no bodies.
Each has a bridge at either end, and tuning machines at one end. One of the necks has six guitar strings stretched across it; the other has four bass strings. Wedged over and under the strings in each neck is a stick – an old drum stick for the guitar strings and a metal rod for the bass strings. The sticks divide each string into two segments, one on each side, which vibrate quasi-independently and so can be played separately. The sticks can also be moved to alter the effective string lengths on either side.
Today's selection is the PENCILINA.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAmFNKb1L8g&eurl=http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om02000.html
Bradford Reed fights and tames the idiosyncrasies of the pencilina, an original instrument of his own design and construction. The pencilina is an electric board zither played primarily by striking the strings with sticks; also by plucking and bowing. Bradford first created it around 1985, and has continued to refine it. (“It just keeps developing," he says.) The basic form is of two boards mounted parallel to each other on a stand, like extended guitar necks with no bodies.
Each has a bridge at either end, and tuning machines at one end. One of the necks has six guitar strings stretched across it; the other has four bass strings. Wedged over and under the strings in each neck is a stick – an old drum stick for the guitar strings and a metal rod for the bass strings. The sticks divide each string into two segments, one on each side, which vibrate quasi-independently and so can be played separately. The sticks can also be moved to alter the effective string lengths on either side.