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[obscurelemming]

Has anyone seen these? Viper violins...

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[mandibaby]

Ya, when I saw Mark Wood playing on tour with the Trans Siberian Orchestra, that was one of the violins he played. I got the chance to talk to him after the concert too -- he's a pretty cool guy.

His company makes some really awesome violins -- http://www.woodviolins.com/html/products.html

[pstscrpt]

The Vipers are cool, but the Stingrays are nearly as cool as long as you're not trying to run with one, and they cost about half as much.

They do all seem to be cheaper than the last time I looked, though.

[inharmonic]

yeah Mark Wood is very awesome. I ate lunch with him while I was up in Nashville for the fiddle camp I mentioned below, and the way he came up with all of his ideas for the electric violins are completely awesome. It's amazing to see a classically trained violist drop out of Julliard to pursue the genre of his heart - rock'n'roll.

[obscurelemming]

I saw the trans siberian orchestra twice so far and that was when I fell in love with that violin. he's amazing to watch/listen to- always running around and still managing to make ridiculous music without missing a note.

[pirastro_tonica]

I'd be soo distracted with that other "leg" on the right side there....

[pstscrpt]

That's not really the whole thing. There's a strap around the back, and I think a folding tripod arm that goes down, so that it's basically mounted to your chest. The idea is to let you run around a stage like a guitar player can.

[heliophobe]

What I think I am going to do is wait until my other is a proper electric guitar luthier and then con him into making me a clone of one of these sometime.

[inharmonic]

yeah dude, those are AMAZING to play on. Mark Wood makes them, and while I was at Mark O'Connor's fiddle camp last year, he let me improvise for about ten minutes on one of those 7 string monsters. He was telling me how he always used to watch his did make electric violins, and he joined in at a young age, and how he always wanted to play in a hard rock group, and thus the design for the violin came into tact within his mind. It's a really neat story.

I want one SOOOOO bad. maybe one day.

[inharmonic]

they also make viper cellos! it strabs onto your body to where you can stand up and play. it's one of the neatest things i've seen in my life.

[ladyofannwn]

I was at Mark O'Connor's camp a couple years ago. wish they he had been there then!

[inharmonic]

isn't that camp extremely fun?

[leopardlee]

Anna Pheobe says that seven stirngs give you cramps for weeks when you first start playing them. Yup, big difference in the neck size