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>>38688922
Nice. Her wings looked antenna-like at first glance, which would've been cool too.

>>38689009
>what is that?
Proof that Swedish niggas are either insane or brilliant. Likely both. I can't remember the name of it. But you don't directly fret it with your left hand, unlike the violin/viol families of instruments which it is close to.

Instead it uses keywork to mechanically 'fret' strings. Pressing a key activates tangents (a la the harpsichord or hurdy gurdy) that change the length of strings. In fact, it's basically a hurdy gurdy (sans wheel), since you still manually use a bow on the strings.

It retained the arched bridge of the violin family. Which invalidates some of the advantage of the key-fretting system -- you physically can't use a Tartini bow on more than 2 strings on a arch-bridged instrument. Not if you want to retain the ability to bow every string individually. It's an unfortunate trade off due to physics. Go flattened bridge and you can only do chordal work, aside from the outermost strings. Go arched bridge, and you're restricted to 'false' chords, such as dyads, and using odd techniques to trick an audience into thinking that you are playing a true chord. It really sucks doing that, btw. Feels like cranking a goddamn machine. Just thinking of it makes my shoulder ache.

That instrument had a mess of strings: 1 drone, 3 keyed, and Eros only knows how many 'resonance strings'. The latter aren't directly played, but resonate in sympathy with the strings you do bow.

I didn't check when meeting the Swede player, but it sounded as if it had a LOT more resonance strings than you would find on the viola d'amore -- and that fucker has seven standard resonance strings, in addition to having seven fret/bowable strings.

The Swedes went kinda crazy shoving sympathetic strings into the instrument. It seriously sounded like a dozen or so of them, but I can't say for certain.

Despite the troublesome mechanisms, it still lacks 'true' chordal function across most of the instrument's range. I.e triads, sevenths, ninths etc aren't available. I assume it is limited to bowed vibrato, due to the keywork.

I don't know the actual tuning. I have relative pitch, not absolute pitch. It was tighter than standard violin tuning (5ths). There was an inside third or fourth on the weirdo keywork fiddle, I think. It's been a while since I've seen or heard one. What's the name of this again, Swede bros?

T.nigga played violin for a decade or two.

>>38321544
She really does. She's the best of lawful and evil.