My presentation for the 2007 Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium has just been published. eContact!, the electronic journal of electroacoustics, is published by the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC).
This issue was edited by David Ogburn, Chair of TES 2007.
Please visit the eContact! 10.3 Table of Contents
Direct link to my article:
The Springboard: The Joy of Piezo Disk Pickups for Amplified Coil Springs
Partly inspired by your Springboard, Dave Knott’s Stringboards, Ken Butler’s Hybrid Strings, and my interest in Asian long-board zithers , I am in the process of making an electro-acoustic stringed/coil-springed bass/sub-bass instrument out of 2 skateboard decks, a double bass finger board, cello tailpiece and cello bridge, various found objects and common hardware parts like eyebolts and screws, etc.
Since part of this instrument will have a brass turtle as one of the bridges, I am calling this a “Hermaion” – after the idea of Hermes creating the first lyre out of a turtle and “hermaion” connotates “gift-of-Hermes,””a lucky find,” “a happy accident,” etc..