Music thing: The Tritare: A guitar with Y-shaped strings
Music thing: The Tritare: A guitar with Y-shaped strings
Yesterday morning, at the Acoustical Society of America’s 151st meeting in Providence, RI, Sophie Léger of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Moncton, Canada, will be presenting a paper on “A New Family of Stringed Musical Instruments”. She’s one of the inventors of the Tritare, which has triple-ended strings - one string goes up the fretted neck, and the other two resonantes on the second, and third, fretless necks
The samples appear to me to be similar to a regular guitar with a bit of flange and reverb effect. Not sure the complexity of the Y stringed instrument is justified by the sound. Can you imagine trying to tune it and keep the junction of all the strings on the same line?