Re: nifty little device on guitar neck

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

Hi Nico.

it's just another pickup.
Mr Frith wanted to capture the sound made when plucking the wrong side 
of the fretting hand.



andy butler


nico spahni wrote:
> Hi folks
> 
> Does anyone know what this nifty (?) little device is (and does) that 
>you mount on the uppermost part of a guitar neck? Experimental guitar 
>player Fred Frith has one on some of his guitars:
> 
> http://www.nndb.com/people/231/000029144/frith01.jpg
> http://www.otherminds.org/images/GIFS1/Frith4.gif
> http://eddy.uni-duisburg.de/joerg/bild/moers01/frith01.jpg
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Nico