Posted by Rand Moore on January 4, 2011 at 11:07pm
This one is designed as a stick dulcimer with a diatonic scale (as most of my instruments are) and features cut nail frets on a real fretboard, and steel strings (Guitar strings 4, 2, and 1). It's tuned G-D-G. With cut corner sound holes, steel frets and strings, it's pretty loud and sounds a bit like a banjo.
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Yes, the Sosa is a nice box, a "keeper", should you ever come across one. Originally I used the box on another CBG before recycling it into this guitar. That first guitar was used to test piezo-electric pick-ups, hence the hole in the soundboard above the SW cut corner of this box where the sound jack went. I was never able to get the noise level (sensitivity of the pickup) down to where it would sound good. It also would pickup a lot of finger noise, so I shelved that idea. Next time I'll try a magnetic pickup, like maybe a 4-string bass pickup on a 4-string CBG.
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Hi Brian.
Yes, the Sosa is a nice box, a "keeper", should you ever come across one. Originally I used the box on another CBG before recycling it into this guitar. That first guitar was used to test piezo-electric pick-ups, hence the hole in the soundboard above the SW cut corner of this box where the sound jack went. I was never able to get the noise level (sensitivity of the pickup) down to where it would sound good. It also would pickup a lot of finger noise, so I shelved that idea. Next time I'll try a magnetic pickup, like maybe a 4-string bass pickup on a 4-string CBG.
-Rand.