The idea was to create an instrument that I could use for realising the John Download project live, but it evolved into becoming a sort of physical manifestation of my master research: the combination of modern/electronic and Baroque.
The electric-baroque guitar
- One single coil neck pickup
- One humbucker bridge pickup with added switch for splitt fuction
- Body treated with wood oil
- Elements from a 12-string electric guitar added to the bridge for the double strings
- Custom made nut for the even distribution of the strings
The electric-baroque guitar has the following string setup:
e - single
B - double
G - double
D/d - double in octave
A - single, one octave down in comparison with a baroque guitar
The guitar needed special pickups since it doesn't have the same string setup as a modern guitar (six strings).
The ornaments where then 3D printed with PLA with wood fibres, and glued onto the body of the guitar
Electric Baroque Guitar
An electric guitar modelled on a baroque guitar:
Five-course guitar, some double and some single strings; 3/4 size of a modern electric guitar.
