I was in an improv noise band with this kid who built his own intruments. he
had a few good pieces, but the most impressive was "the spring pipe". it was
a 3 foot length of of PVC pipe. with eyebolts at each end with a thick
spring attached to stretch across the length of the pipe. in the middle he
embedded an old (very low quality) guitar pick-up that wired to a 1/4
output.
he played it by scraping or beating it with various objects like wrenches,
metal bits, wooden sticks, blocks of industrial plastic, wire wrapped in
electric tape, (this list could go on and on)
I was always amazed at how many sounds and how much expressiveness he could
get from one spring. to top it all of he would run it through rack effects.
mostly a digitech G7. with all 8 layers of effects on this simple machine
made some of the most brutal sounds I've ever heard.
I have a pictures of the spring pipe somewhere. when I find them I'll scan
one and send it to you.
later
Eric L.
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