RE: Klein Electric Guitar

[Tom Attix <toma@microsoft.com>]

What about the feedback of the (body) vibration from the acoustic
chamber to the string? Obviously, you can't increase overall string
vibration (amplitude) by coupling it to an acoustic chamber but could
the chamber act as a "storage device" for resonant freq's thereby
sustaining certain harmonics (longer than they would have been
originally) and effectively dampening nonresonant harmonics? If you plug
this into an amp, it will feedback much easier (energy is never free but
maybe you can get it a little cheaper...).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: matthias@bahianet.com.br [SMTP:matthias@bahianet.com.br]
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 1997 12:14 AM
> To:   Tom Attix
> Subject:      Re: Klein Electric Guitar
> 
> Kim wrote:
> >>>Strummed acoustically it is
> >>>quite loud, like a 335. The resonance chamber does that for you.
> 
> Sean Echevarria asked:
> >>Are there any other benefits to the chamber?
> 
> Kim answered:
> >Well, I'm hardly an expert on guitar design, but as I understand,
> resonant
> >chambers can add a lot of sustain and harmonic content. I think
> that's
> >what they do in the Kleins. I know I liked the chambered Kleins
> better
> >than the non-chambered ones, although those are very nice too. The
> chamber
> >adds $$, of course.....
> 
> I thought:
> The chamber probably absorbs some energy from the cord and thus
> diminuishes
> sustain. The loud acoustic sound confirms that. The sound energy you
> hear
> is taken from the string and the more you take the quicker it is
> without,
> which means less sustain. But sure, it makes the harmonic content more
> complex, more alive.
> A perfect long sustain means no absorbtion of the sting energy, which
> means
> no colouring is possible by absobing some frequencies more than others
> -
> the "dead" carbon fiber sound.
> 
> ... thats how I understood natural sustain
> 
> Matthias
> 
>