Teuffel Birdfish - Futuristic Guitar

Started by panrixx, July 20, 2009, 04:55:08 PM

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panrixx

This forum is called FGN, so I thought it would be worth showing the Teuffel Birdfish.

www.teuffel.com


MCK-fgn

Looks beautiful to me. I predict a Twangy tone...
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Elantric-fgn

I remember those

I understand some Teuffel models (Coco) are no longer in production because the builder suffered a bad skin rash from the Carbon Graphite materials employed - rather like working on the stealth bomber with exotic chemical adhesives that kill.







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Elantric-fgn

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How about the Gittler?



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittler_guitar

It had Hex Output!! (count the 6 RCA cables outputs)


A Gittler Guitar is an experimental designed guitar created by Allan Gittler (1928-2003). Gittler handmade 60 guitars in New York in the mid 1970s to early 1980s (selling one to Andy Summers which he plays in The Police's "Synchronicity II" video). Then he emigrated to Israel, settled in Hebron, changed his name to Avraham Bar Rashi, and licensed the design to a local company in Kiryat Bialik called Astron Engineer Enterprises LTD. They computer-machined around 300, Bar Rashi commented later to the effect that he was unhappy with the manufacturing, citing in particular "some bits of plywood" that they had added to his original design. Astron, however, claims that their instruments are precisely manufactured copies of the original construction, and that the addition of a plastic body containing electronics for simplified handling, while arguably compromising the minimalism of the original idea, had no influence on the sound or the style of playing.

The first 60 are sometimes described as the Fishbone Gittler guitar. Three Gittler-style basses also exist, made in New York and numbered 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Bar Rashi's widow does not acknowledge them as "Gittler" basses, attributing them, instead, to their respective owners, as having been made in the Gittler style or technique.

The Gittler guitar has 6 strings. Each string has its own pickup. The later versions have a plastic body. The steel frets, consisting of stainless steel bars mounted along the stainless steel neck, give the instrument a sitar-like feel, as it is possible to bend the strings downward past where a wooden fretboard would prohibit the movement in a conventional guitar. The six individual pickups can be routed to divided outputs via D-sub-9-pin. or be mixed to a 1/4" RS connector. The built in pre-amps are quite noisy and powered by a 9 V battery or via D-sub connector. The New York version came without a pre-amp section; the individual pickups' signals were led into single cables, which could then be plugged into a mixing box or each separately amplified.

The Museum of Modern Art, MOMA has one instrument in its collection.

The only left handed guitar known to exist was made by Bar Rashi himself in 1995 or 1996. It is a signed minimalist instrument, identical to the one he played in the later period of his life and made to order for a client in Jerusalem. There are only 12 separate parts in total and the frets are one long thread of nylon. This creates a unique sound. The guitar was taken out of Israel and is presently on sale in Coogee, Sydney Australia (see photo).[citation needed]

. . . the future ain't what it used to be . . .

Elantric-fgn

. . . the future ain't what it used to be . . .

Zipidy-fgn

Peter McGilton has some interesting looks:  http://www.exoticguitars.com/instruments.html

As does Auerswald Instruments. Here's their Lolita 7 sustainbow:

Johnnyurq-fgn

Wow some unique gutars there.

The Lolita 7 sustainbow has a Roland G707 guitar synth vibe going on.

Sympodius

Cool looking guitars. Would love to hear how some of them sounded.
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Elantric-fgn

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Zed91

Quote from:  Zipidy on July 20, 2009, 06:06:46 PM
Peter McGilton has some interesting looks:  http://www.exoticguitars.com/instruments.html

As does Auerswald Instruments. Here's their Lolita 7 sustainbow:

I love the design of this one

Elantric-fgn

. . . the future ain't what it used to be . . .

Zed91