{"id":3663,"date":"2013-02-28T09:29:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T17:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2016-07-20T13:33:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-20T20:33:03","slug":"electric-bass-harp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/electric-bass-harp\/","title":{"rendered":"electric bass harp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking about this idea I&#8217;ve had for an electric instrument; a bass-type fretted set of strings across the top bar &#8211; a stick-type bass &#8211; and a panel of deep harp strings coming off the bottom of that which could be finger-plucked, all with electric pickups and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>It just struck me as something an elfmetal band should have, and I&#8217;m semi-serious about getting a luthier to make one at some point. It&#8217;d look like kind of a wedge bass, but with a bunch of extra strings and pickups on it. The top bar could also be fretless, but that&#8217;s more a jazz thing than metal.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody beat me to an acoustic version. They have the harp strings on top, and it&#8217;s all acoustic (which is NOT THE SAME) but it&#8217;s still the same basic idea.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img decoding=\"async\" width=500 height=375 src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2013-02\/guitarharp.jpg\"><br \/><i>(photo Long &#038; McQuade, Surrey, BC; h\/t Pauline McDonald)<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I still want my bass electric version. But&#8230; <em>yeah<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been talking about this idea I&#8217;ve had for an electric instrument; a bass-type fretted set of strings across the top bar &#8211; a stick-type bass &#8211; and a panel of deep harp strings coming off the bottom of that which could be finger-plucked, all with electric pickups and stuff. It just struck me as [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-peoples-art","category-random-coolness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9528,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3663\/revisions\/9528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}