Fishman SBT-C Pickup On Guitar Or Guitarron And Other Semi-Related Pseudo-Palindromes
We're back with Sones de Mexico's Juan Dies who is all about solving time rifted situations. Some of his traditional folk instruments don't even have bridges, so converting them into amplifier ready pieces can be a bit of a mental exercise.
Juan shows us how the Fishman SBT-C makes it easy to reconcile the lack of foresight of ancestors who couldn't imagine how amplification would effect music in their wildest dreams!
[JUAN DIES AND FRIENDS PERFORMING]
JUAN DIES: My name is Juan Dies with Sones de Mexico Ensemble, and I'm here in my home to show some of the solutions that we found for ethnic folk musicians for whom electroacoustic instruments are not made.
There are different types of microphones that would work with instruments. We have the transducer microphones that work on a lot of instruments that don't have a proper bridge like this guitarron; it doesn't have a bridge. The strings are flown.
This instrument was adapted with a bridge. It didn't have a bridge but this bridge was added to it in order for the strings to rest on this white piece of plastic, which is actually the pickup. And that was wired into a plug that doubles as a strap and this is how it sounds.
[MUSICIAN DEMONSTRATING THE USE OF THE FISHMAN SBT-C CLASSICAL GUITAR PICKUP INSTALLED ON A JARANA HUASTECA]
JUAN DIES: This instrument is called the Jarana Huasteca.
[JUAN DIES AND GRETCHEN HASSE LAUGHING]
Pick Up for Guitarron
I found your video on the pickup to be pretty exciting but too short. Can you send me a link to the installment of a pickup or bridge adaptation for a Guitarron. Would you even recommend to do this to the instrument? Would the sound be change too much from its classic form. Much obliged to ya
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