Replace wooden bridge with steel it will conduct sound better. Then touch the output transducer to the metal bride. I mount mine thru a hole in the sound board,and touching the bridge. It will really come alive. I also use a piezo on the input . It resonates all my strings on my 3 string cbg.

If you make each bridge support one string like a koto, you'll be able to re-tune between compositions or even in the course of a composition much more easily as well as making the instrument louder. Of course it will easily get knocked out of that tuning, but that seems a reasonable trade-off for the gain in function.

Nice hat Michael 🎩👒🤠 You're full of useful information again!

Great stuff, nicely packaged sustainer circuit, I have working on similar things.

Wow awesome video! I'd love to get one of those sustainer circuit kits.

Awesome I'm actually getting ready to do similar sound tests on a resonator guitar build with different soundwell configurations 😊 Next will be another dulcitar lol

you could prolly use a PET water bottle for the front of the box (tacked around the edge and shrunk with heat). Saw a man on YT who makes violins from "scrap materials," and two use thin plastic -- one a water bottle. But, seems like you're done, having found how to make it louder. Cool stuff!

I’ll buy the kit for the sustainer. I might even mail you a mic stand

i wonder if you could make the sound board out of a very thin sheet of aluminum or steel and then you could use circuitry and inductance to create a sustainer out of the soundboard itself (i have no knowledge on any of this so dont shot me if im wildly off in lalaland with the idea)

You could use a long wire antenna to harvest stray RF to possibly power this thing out in nature without a battery. I'm not sure what kind of wattage you need for it to properly function but if you want to see an example of what I mean, this guy powers some LEDs using nothing but a wire laying in a park: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r9ecncR8z7HOlGg.html

Hating on Thoreau, based upon 2024's views of what men _should've_ been like in the first half of the 19th century, is not a good look. He may have had his flaws, but compared to most men back then, he was an original thinker and something of a renaissance man.

Remember that time Thoreau had a vacation at his parent's friends summer cottage, just down the road from his own home, where he still went to do his laundry, then wrote a book about it like it was one man conquering the wilderness? Remember that other time he wrote an essay about how much he loves walking in the outdoors because nobody is there, and if anyone were there, anyone at all, one single person, any individual person in the outdoors would completely ruin the outdoors for him.

eye - o - lee - an. not alien! lol