Using a Gramophone soundbox for amplification

[DaveFry]

Just discovered an old idea which I thought others here might like .

 

Apparently in India it was common to attach the soundbox from a wind-up gramophone to quieter instruments such as the Esraj that are played ( bowed ) on only one string .

If the needle is modified by making a fork in the end and sat over the playing string , it produces a louder , albeit tinnier , sound .

 

It is demonstrated 12min42secs into the first video on this page ;

http://www.chandrakantha.com/articles/indian_music/dilruba.html

[dinosr.]

That was a very cool. Imagine this on a guitar with an e-bow. It really makes it sound like a gramaphone. I definetly will keep an eye out for an old busted up grama at yard sales and what not.