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Thank you. I haven't quite found the joy of it yet, being out of practice, but when I feel more comfortable or become less self critical, I will probably enjoy it more.

@@MabInstruments I can relate to that. I just love the gestures and expressive smeariness of slide guitar. It's fun to make other instruments more like trombones!

@@markfdesimone , I love trombone. I have been very tempted to buy one, but it might be too loud for my neighbours.

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That sounds like a very intense gig. Thank you for sharing the story.

@@MabInstruments oh intense it was! Mads said he could see the exact moment the acid REALLY kicked in, i was onstage playing 'For What It's Worth' and then just WHOOSH!!! and i still had another 45 minutes to an hour of alternating music & poetry w/Mads...

Thank you. I'd need to see your design to get a better idea, but common problems are not enough rosin, too much rosin, the disk/belt not being made from a material that holds rosin well and the disk/belt being pushed too strongly or not strongly enough against the strings. Some people will also suggest that applying cotton to the strings is important, though that is not a path I have pursued myself, because every time I try applying cotton, it seems to make things worse rather than better.

If you are not using strings that are specifically intended to be bowed (for example violin strings or viola strings) then changing to strings that are specifically intended to be bowed may help.

If you are using a disk then there are questions of whether the disk meets all of the strings at the same height and what effect holding a string to the fretboard will have. My personal preference in this is to have the plane of the disk more or less parallel to the plane of the strings, having the disk behind the strings and the soundboard in front, though that is not very practical if you are trying to convert an existing ukulele. If you did follow the same pattern as me then I recommend having a raised O shaped section on the disk that engages with the strings and having an adjustment for how much each string pushes against the wheel.

This video of mine about an instrument with hurdy gurdy-like wheel and three strings of standard guitar scale length combined with a fretboard may possibly help. My impression is that it's easier to get guitar length strings to work with a wheel than ukulele length strings, but I may be wrong. ruclips.net/video/DIPrd30tqQw/видео.htmlsi=MKSZhnU1hzxOI1N6

@@MabInstruments Thank you so much for the generous explanation! I haven't yet bought any rosin, so I'm not able to try it on the nylon ukulele strings. Maybe rosin and cotton would work. The belt does work a little better on my steel string guitar. I will keep experimenting!

If I remember correctly the alternative was to set up the system to give painful electric shocks to one person or more people with who or where, when and for how long the shocks were administered being controlled by singing, intended as a consensual form of erotic play.

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I have considered it. I'd happily make you one. Something that sometimes gets in the way of making instruments for people is the expense of sending them to different countries. I'm in the UK.

I agree, this is what I came up with as well.

I think you're right.. it's just limited to one mode of vibration, like a laser.

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It's not.

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Neither this, nor anything else, is my day job.

I have been barred from a tavern in the real world, but that was for saying things on Facebook, not singing or playing an instrument.

The tavern I'm barred from is on the same road as the bookshop with no name.

I couldn't do it until I watched a RUclips video about the mouth technique.

This is the RUclips video that enabled me to play oblique flutes. I don't know whether you have already watched it. ruclips.net/video/k2tYtZ9VUdk/видео.htmlsi=M--2umJ45SwwmJ_A

@@MabInstruments Thanks, o hadn't seen this one. I'll try again

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This is it

Well what can we do with this info?

@@kakashi392 Sleep at night.

Thank you. I listen forward to hearing your new build.

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Thank you. You are right. It's 14ed2 (also written 14edo).

@@MabInstruments I love 14 EDO. It's such a haunting yet beautifully resonant sound. Great stuff and super playing.

@@stonemanguitars , thank you.

A feature of the instrument (and most instruments I make) is that the fretboard is removable and can be replaced with other fretboards with frets in different places for different microtonal scales. I have fretboards for all the ed2s (edos) from 7 to 18, except 9 (which I lost somewhere), as well as 10 ed Phi (10 equal divisions of Phi, the golden ratio), 12, 13, 24, 25 and 29 ed 3 (equal divisions of a perfect 12th also known as a tritave) and a fretboard with movable frets.

It's all a matter of taste. I won't be expecting you personally to contribute.

Also, the thing about a musical instrument is that you can play lots of different music on it.

@@MabInstruments Well I really didnt mean to offend you perhaps I shouldn'thave been so harsh,You're hot though!I's be your groupee any day!

I'm always glad when something I do on RUclips provokes an emotional response. I have been deeply disconcerted that none of my recent videos have been officially disliked. The absence of dislikes suggests that I have been doing something wrong. (It may be a change of settings that I am unaware of.)

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This article, shown to me by a friend, was part of the inspiration for the song. asmanxasthehills.com/tramman-the-elder-tree/

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There's no need to apologise. None of it is your fault.

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