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by silversmith 1037 days ago
Soo... Electric version of concert kokle? And that got patented?
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rawrawrawrr 1037 days ago
It's very different from kokle. The harpejji is tapped, while the kokle is strummed, for one. A closer comparison would be a chapman stick.
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tralarpa 1037 days ago
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ovccPopjCs
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_Parfait_ 1037 days ago
he's very clearly plucking bro cmon
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_def 1037 days ago
You might be confusing it with hammer-offs, the term plucking is describing a different technique
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coldtea 1037 days ago
In the same sense that "Dropbox is a version of curlftpfs plus SVN, and still it got funded!".
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p0w3n3d 1037 days ago
but dropbox is not patented and you are not prevented from making your own CurlFtpFS and SVN system
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coldtea 1037 days ago
That wasn't the point of the analogy though.

It was to drive attention to a dismissive attitude "this is just X+Y, which already exist".

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p0w3n3d 1037 days ago
more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lap_steel_guitar
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