SynthAxe: Difference between revisions
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| "And in fact that’s what happened. But luckily for me I’d started getting back into using guitar again. I had a lot of experimental guitars then, from a really small one to a couple of really huge baritone guitars, so that I could get at least on record get the kind of range that I could get with the '''SynthAxe'''. So miss that." | | "And in fact that’s what happened. But luckily for me I’d started getting back into using guitar again. I had a lot of experimental guitars then, from a really small one to a couple of really huge baritone guitars, so that I could get at least on record get the kind of range that I could get with the '''SynthAxe'''. So miss that." |
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| ==[[The Reluctant Guitarist (Jazz Journal 1992)]]==
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| In recent years, Holdsworth has found an outlet for his horn-playing ambition in the '''SynthAxe''', a guitar-like synthesiser controller with a tube into which the player blows to add expression.
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| ‘The '''SynthAxe''' is close to what I want, cause it’s a combination of blowing and picking, so it’s like a horn and guitar. You don’t have to blow so hard though, it’s an open blowing, like blowing a balloon up; there’s no embouchure.’
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| There has been a certain resistance among followers of Holdsworth’s guitar playing to his use of the '''SynthAxe''', but Holdsworth feels they are missing the point.
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| ‘That tends to prove that lot of guitar players are not listening to the notes. They’re listening to something else. It’s the music that counts. Perhaps they can’t relate to the sound of it, but it’s being done just like it would on the guitar.’
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| ==[[Allan Holdsworth Jam (Jazziz 1994)]]== | | ==[[Allan Holdsworth Jam (Jazziz 1994)]]== |
