Could you also play the 'one finger version' of this on a seagull merlin, by pressing down on the paired strings but leaving the 2 other strings open for that drone effect?
Naturally. See other video comment ;-) The only thing I wonder is if the song will be lost at all from the lack of low end movement. I wonder if fretting the lower two string and leaving the upper string(s) open to ring as your drone would work better? See what you think.
It’s not so much the small body size it’s the narrow neck/fretboard…if it were just an 1/8th inch wider it would be easier… It seems to me the strumstick as designed by McNally (and copied by others) was done in the interest of simplicity of construction, cut out where the soundbox would be and spread the sides out. Michael King’s version of a rounded, bent wood soundbox is larger a bit more resonant and easier to hold (similar to a Persian setar but with a flat back instead of a deep bowl)…But, that is more labor intensive involving bending a separate piece of wood and attaching it to a neck …
@Inglewood Instruments Do some covers of nirvana songs Also do you have any videos on canjo playing? If not, you should make some, canjos only cost like 30 dollars.
I don't have any of those, and I don't own a canjo, so... stuck for the moment. I am building a ukulele, so there might be some videos about that next year. And I will certainly get to a Nirvana song sooner or later. Not a lot of requests for them, and some are probably borderline impossible on a diatonic instrument.
