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.
This web site describes some of the work I've done over the years designing and building electronic music synthesizers and wind controllers.
A "wind controller" is a hybrid instrument that is "played" like a traditional musical wind instrument, i.e., it is blown and fingered like a brass or woodwind instrument. However, rather than producing musical sounds directly, it produces electrical signals that are used to control an electronic-music sound generator ...
Japanese flutes.
We enjoy playing flutes, hand-making flutes, and studying history of Japanease flutes. There are several types of flutes in Japan. 'Shinobue' flute, 'Ryuteki' flute, 'Nohkan' flute ,and so on. Come and See and Enjoy Flute with us.
Yokobue, Ryuteki, Nohkan,
Shinobue, Fueshi, Kagurabue, Komabue, Hayashi, Gagaku, Nohgaku, Kabuki,
Nagauta, Hoseido, Susudake, Hishigi, Isso, Morita, Wakayama, urushi,
Japanese Flutes, Bamboo, transverse
Early Stringed Instruments. We specialise in early string instruments, supplying worldwide to professional and amateur musicians, museums, cultural foundations, and university departments.
After a short, unexpected illness, Bernard Ellis died peacefully on the 15th of November 2000.
This website will continue as a tribute to Bernard’s work. These instruments are no longer for sale, but it is hoped that the site remains of use as a source of information and images of a wide range of early string instruments ...
The best and most professional natural saxophones made in Argentina, using bamboo, gourds,
coconuts and horns.
From 1985 we developed and built this instrument, with equal attention to acoustic design and aesthetics. Carefully electronicaly tuned , and with maximum durability. Our saxes have a careful external finish. Their interior is protected
against changes of humidity, frequent in all wind instruments.
Bamboo saxophones consist of segments of bamboo successively larger in diameter. This progression, achieved by trial-and-error, has now been demonstrated by acoustical studies as the most harmonically effective.
The joints are extremely solid and resistant over time.
Our work with mouthpieces led us to use different bamboo types that
give the instrument its own and characteristic sound.
It uses conventional sax reeds, which can be acquired in any good musical store
in the world. They have keys that cover toneholes outside the reach of the fingers. This improves the acoustic design and the fingering
distribution.
The Bamboo sax is not an imitation of brass saxes, it is an instrument
in its own right.