Guitar Electronics :
A Discrete FET Guitar Preamp
Don's famous FET preamp.
An FET Preamp Cable
A phantom-powered preamp built into a 1/4-inch phone plug.
Pickups Part 1: Response Effects of Guitar Pickup Position and Width
Analysis, equations and plots of pickup response curves.
Pickups Part 2: Response Effects of Guitar Pickup Mixing
Analysis, equations and response plots of mixes of pickups.
Pickups Part 3: Pickup Response Demonstration Applet
Try it out! Move pickups around, draw pretty curves.
Don Tillman, articles, electronic music, synthesizers, oscillator.
Yokobue is a catchall term of Japanese transverse flute, including Shinobue, Ryuteki, Komabue, Nohkan and so on. Shinobue is a Japanese popular traditional flute, used in 'Nagauta' or 'Matsuri-bayashi'.
There are several kinds of Shinobue flutes. For 'Uta'(song) or for 'Hayashi'(accompaniment).
And there are 12 or 13 steps(sorts) of flute, every semitone.
The '7-hon' flute, middle tone flute is popular.
Let's craft a '7-hon' flute.
We use more complicated making method for Ryuteki, Komabue, Kagurabue and Nohkan than Shinobue.
shareware download,
AP Tuner 3 is an update to the older AP Tuner programs. The latest version supports an improved detection algorithm for low notes for bass and piano. The application can now handle custom temperament and stretch tables. Finally a new "Harmonics Graph" window has been added to visualize harmonic content over time.
While the double strung Irish Bouzouki has become very popular in the last twenty five years, especially in the Celic music community, little has been written in the instrument, its origins and the way in which they are built. This is really two articles in one, the first part describibg the variety of instruments which get called bouzoukis (or citterns or octave mandolins) and giving some idea of how they get put together, and the second part on the method I have developed for making molded and carved arched soundboards which I use on bouzoukis, mandolas and mandolins ...