MOTM

Several things:
I had a friend who would play his bass with a, um, vibrator.  Very 
interesting, as the guitar pickup picks up the vibrations of the motor 
inside.
Also, another acquaintance would stick a batttery operated tv (back when 
they were fairly large) up to the pickups of his bass.  Yet another weird 
sound.
Me personally, here's my thing: if your guitar is feeding back (I recommend 
using a compressor pedal to avoid excessive hearing loss),
you can sing or scream into the pickup & some sound will travel through the 
pickups to the amp.  I also played my casio sk5 into the pickups, & that 
came through great.
As for elhardt's thing of using a cello body with a synth patch:  I have 
been thinking along these lines myself.  A preliminary observation:
I mic'ed an autoharp while I played sax to pick up its string vibrations as 
I played.  Not the greatest effect in the world.  The only way I can see 
using an istrument with strings is if they're fretted
to go along with the sound source vibrating them.
Also, I plan to use a messed up acoustic guitar as a resonating body.  I'll 
report back when I get that all working.

Oh, and all of this sort of reminded me of a webpage that dexcribes how to 
make a spring reverb from a slinky-can't remember the address, but it looked 
amusing.

tomr


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