Building an electric saz

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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by epizootics » Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:25 am

Well, no need to twist my brother's arm (who used to be a rock climbing instructor, which makes his arms really hard to twist in any case), I made a quick & dirty video of it myself. Please don't laugh too hard, I tried really hard not to put too many bum notes in there but the tuning is still really confusing for my fingers. The lowest string course is in the middle, then the top (closest to the ceiling) strings come next, a full tone higher, and then the ones at the bottom are tuned a fourth higher than that. I got confused in a previous post, it's actually the long-neck saz that is tuned in fifths.

https://youtu.be/iCxssVZplO0

There are only a few extra frets in there, so depending on the mode (makam) you want to play you have to play in certain tonalities. I haven't quite began to tackle those, so most of what I play relies on the western 12 tones. I am really curious though. I might build a long-neck version for myself when I get the time.
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8) That's come out awesome, and btw that table it's sitting on is pretty interesting too, did you have something to do with with that? Some sound samples would be great, if you could twist your brother's arm into doing some (metaphorically obviously, he needs to be physically able to play)...
Haha. I made that table from an 80-year-old slab of figured oak I found at the same closed-down sawmill where I got the douglas fir I used on this build. It made a nice, sturdy (and heavy as hell) coffee table.
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One of the things I love about this forum is the surprisingly wide variety of stringed instruments that turn up. No other guitar forum I'm on/browse has this rich an array. Not even on the Tele forum and that's got it's fair share of bluegrass cats.

I dig the difference.
Yes indeed. OSG also has the most relaxed vibes of all the guitar-oriented forums out there. It's refreshing to see all the crazy stuff people build out there, without the usual shouting matches / death threats / trolling / etc. :)

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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Mon Sep 20, 2021 4:51 am

Looks great & sounds fantastic!!
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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:56 am

That sounds super cool!!! Also, are you lefty?
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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by epizootics » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:13 am

Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:56 am
That sounds super cool!!! Also, are you lefty?
You got me! I am actually a lefty from Nisnocsiw ;D

I hadn't even noticed, it seems that my phone doesn't reverse the videos shot from the rear camera. :squint:

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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by Shadoweclipse13 » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:19 am

epizootics wrote:
Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:13 am
Shadoweclipse13 wrote:
Mon Sep 20, 2021 6:56 am
That sounds super cool!!! Also, are you lefty?
You got me! I am actually a lefty from Nisnocsiw ;D

I hadn't even noticed, it seems that my phone doesn't reverse the videos shot from the rear camera. :squint:
Ha! I was wondering. I thought I'd always seen your stuff as righty.

I had the same curiosity watching a Gilmourish video a few years back, and always thought Bjorn was righty, but he had a wedding ring on his pick hand. Here in the west, wedding rings generally go on the left hand, which would make him lefty, so I asked. Apparently, in Norway, some people wear wedding bands on the right hand. I thought that was pretty cool.
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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by noisepunk » Mon Sep 20, 2021 7:22 am

it sounds excellent, really lovely work!

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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by antisymmetric » Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:42 pm

^^Indeed! :-*
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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by solfege » Wed Sep 22, 2021 6:20 pm

Looks and sounds great.

If you don't know Jerusalem in My Heart (or his collaborations with Suuns), you might check it out for both the saz playing and for the collaboration's fun fusion of all that with Krautrock.

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Re: Building an electric saz

Post by kick_the_reverb » Thu Sep 23, 2021 4:10 pm

Looks and sounds great! Well done!

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