The Winslanirian is an instrument designed and built by Winsow Porter and myself. The original idea was to build a stringed addition to a drum set that could be hit to make the open-tuned strings resonate. This evolved into its current table-top form, which is based on prepared guitars, particularly Yuri Landman‘s Moonlander.¬†
 
The Winslanirian has 11 strings: 6 guitar strings and 2 bass strings on the top, which are playable, and 3 guitar strings on the underside of the instrument, which are resonating. The sound is picked up using two-by-two sets of single-coil guitar pickups, one bass humbucker, and two piezo contact microphones between the nut/bridge and the pegs of the guitar strings.
 
 
Each pickup network has its own output jack, and so can be altered separately using a mixer. The guitar pickup network is also connected to an on-board crossfader, which balances the volume of the front and back pickup sets.
 
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