About the "Electric Viola"

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Inspired by Terry Gilliam's cut-and-paste-image animation for Monty Python, I made a few images of my own, such as this "electric viola".

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Starting with a photograph of a viola as the foundation, I took another photograph, this time of a Gretsch Tennessean guitar, and after carefully resizing the copy, used an exacto blade to cut out the toggle switch, volume dial, output jack and whammy bar. I then secured these bits strategically on the body of the viola to make it look like it had been electrified.

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The image looks cool and provides some insight into the diversity of my musical interests, but ultimately, is a  joke:

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If one were to actually build something like this for real, using the whammy bar, especially on a "dive down", would cause the strings to go slack and the bridge, held in place by the tension of the strings, would collapse, making the instrument immediately unplayable.

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And, sure, there are amplified arco strings, but a toggle switch which indicates multiple pickups? C'mon!

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