electrooo celloooo . . . not yet . . . soon.
I bought a cello neck and fingerboard through the internet and they finally came today. I’ve got this pet project to build my own electric cello. I have one of the Yamaha ones, but it’s very robotic and mechanical looking and I want to take a stab at making my own design. It will basically be a trial run because I’ve never built anything like it before, but it will definitely be a fun project. The design will be loosely based on the shape I use for waxatronic - which is my electronic stuff that you can find here.
The TVOTR concert this weekend was awesome! I thought the flow of the show was really well done, although I was skeptical at first. They played “Wolf Like Me” for their 4th song, which seemed like a bold move, especially in the typical save-the-hits-for-last concert mentality. But it really brought the crowd in and they kept the energy high even through some of the slower sparser songs after that. “Golden Age” was a lot faster than on the record but it was still good. Dave Sitek had these windchimes hanging from the end of his guitar for a bunch of songs, which was pretty crazy. It was hard to tell what they were really doing, but I guess they must have added some kind of sustained overtones to add to the overall wall of sound he makes.
Tags: electric cello
November 10th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Woah! you’ve been posting
New cello! Awesome! Id like to see that! One day Ill have money and time to make one like this one
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2047/1798295422_71b771a10c.jpg?v=0
hehe…no, not really..
I liked so much your funky Casals video
It’s so cool! and I still have the song in my head! Just last weekI was watching a documentary of him with that same masterclass in it 
November 14th, 2008 at 12:08 am
haha sweet cello