@@hammies. koto is Japanese, but it does sound pretty similar. I think it's closest to a shamisen personally, though that's also Japanese. The Chinese instrument you're thinking of is called a Guqin.
I always love the processes, but I actually loved the musical output here, too. Kind of enjoying the general format of the video, too. Just showing the process before doing any talking was a good way to draw me in
Nice! Good thing about a screw-on neck is that you can shim it to adjust the string height. I'm a bit worried about the plastic case collapsing under the string tension, though.
When I see your name up in discord I try to imagine what you're up to. I'm glad it's stuff like this. Perfect Magpie entry into cassette-tar mini-trend. It really does make sense for a LMNC + Simon + Hainbach cassette-tar track to happen someday...
This reminds me of vintage Beck [i.e. Golden Feelings and the like]. It sounds amazing :)! (Apologies of comparisons with artists an affront; meant purely as praise :) )
very cool idea!, i love that you three play off of each other! you should record an album like the postal service did back in 2004, each do parts and fragments and send to the next one. then maybe have andrew huang mix it? also i bought a shirt from your store and love it! keep up the great work Simon you inspire a whole community!
Very cool! If there's any room inside, you could add a pick-up and wire it to the tape head. Then you'd have an electric uke that uses the tape player as a pre-amp and a mini amp.
Put the tape deck in record/pause mode and patch your amp into the headphone jack. You'll find that the live audio from the internal mike will now output through the headphone jack (but not the built-in speaker). Virtually all tape recorders do this trick, it's called 'monitor' mode. Now you have an electric uke.
That thingy is nice and has a good sound. I would suggest taking it further and adding a second mic, a small amp and a small external speaker somewhere on the other side so you can hear it amplified while recording.
cassette player kalimba would, actually, be a fantastic idea. provided that the record/rewind buttons are like shoulder pads on a gamepad - so you can keep on playing while using the rest of your hands to control the looping.
That’s fucking awesome!!! 😎 The sound is interstellar, and other worldly!! I LOVE it!! ❤️🌈 Wish I had one... really need to start making my own instruments like you do.
is there space that you could put a small pickup and then mod the tape deck into a tape delay ? probably not room inside for all that , but in a perfect world...... That track you made with it though , that came together wicked .
Now all's you need to make is a cardboard box into a slick gig bag hard case for it. Couple latches and fabric. Maybe some thin plywood. Adjust the intonation, (move the bridge .. hint hint test at 12 n zero). Voltage kill or drop button on relay switch.
If you shimmed the neck to tilt it back it would help with the action, if you wanted to get crazy you could do that and also lower the bridge. Necks generally have a break angle which is the angle at which the necks tilts or "breaks" at which to allow the string to be at the same height across the fretboard.
Load in a cassette audio adapter and then connect the 3.4mm to a 6.35mm(1/4 inch) adapter and then plug it into an amp. BOOM! ELECTRIC CASSESTDECK UKE!!! Or plug it into whatever you want.
There is no better Kalimba than our Kalimba 😉 you know this Simon! I applaud your endless creativity 😊 We are currently building probably the best bass kalimba in existence. So stay tuned. Bring on kalimba wars! Stay funky, much love 😁
This is exactly kinda what I thought when saw the Casio guitar vids. I’ve been looking for one of those for a long time but I could never justify the cost because you could just mod a tape recorder, record guitar and have way more flexibility.
