Andrew
Andrew
Andrew:
Any more details? What site is that from? I can't quite tell hwta is going on with those parts. Are those removable or actually attached on the instrument.
Jim
Jim
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It's from an estate auction - no other info available. From the picture, everything appears to be attached....sort of a double resonator effect?!
Andrew
WOW, just when you thought you saw it all, that things cool.
Mike Lettieri
AKA Mandolinmyster
I'm thinking played with a slide...
I'd buy it just to try it. I'll bet that the theory is similar to building a ported speaker baffle: the length of the air column and second resonator is tuned in an effort to reinforce some range of frequencies that the builder thought were important. I wonder how well he succeeded. This is one of those things that would have died on the market even if it worked nearly perfectly, just because the result is so funny-looking.
One thing I can't deduce from the pictures: is it a sealed air-chamber, or is it two open resonators facing each other with the sound radiating from the baffle between the two?
Has it got its original hard shell case?
Love to see a picture of that.
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