philicorda
May 28th 04, 12:23 AM
Hi.
I've had the idea in my head for a long time that a piano harp would make
an interesting reverb, in somewhat the same way a plate reverb works.
Now I have found a knackerd old upright, a promise of some long magnetic
piano pickups and a little time to bodge it all together.
The only thing that remains is to find a way of getting the signal into
the strings. Using a speaker in the piano would probably work, but might
be a little loud. Some kind of coneless speaker like they use on real
plates might work, perhaps attatched to a bridge held by springs against
the strings? Or perhaps it could be attached to the harp, and the whole
thing removed from the piano and suspended, but I doubt the power would be
there to put much into the strings.
I wondered if anyone else has had a bash at anything like this and has any
tips?
I've had the idea in my head for a long time that a piano harp would make
an interesting reverb, in somewhat the same way a plate reverb works.
Now I have found a knackerd old upright, a promise of some long magnetic
piano pickups and a little time to bodge it all together.
The only thing that remains is to find a way of getting the signal into
the strings. Using a speaker in the piano would probably work, but might
be a little loud. Some kind of coneless speaker like they use on real
plates might work, perhaps attatched to a bridge held by springs against
the strings? Or perhaps it could be attached to the harp, and the whole
thing removed from the piano and suspended, but I doubt the power would be
there to put much into the strings.
I wondered if anyone else has had a bash at anything like this and has any
tips?