Yo!
Sorry I dropped off the map about that piezo pickup thing, I got a little caught up in another project, a ridiculous Electronic Scoop Shamisen.
I thought you guys might enjoy the results:
Electronic Scoop Shamisen - Demo Reel from Simon Hutchinson on Vimeo.
If you haven’t checked the “scoop shamisen” videos on YouTube before, you definitely should. They’re good fun.
Anyway, hopefully I’ll get back to looking into pickups soon!
Hmmm. That didn’t seem to embed the video properly.
Apologies.
I love it! This is your original idea yes? Man! I’d love to see some sort of collaboration for that electric scoop and a regular Shami.
Thanks for posting this Simon! We should do something again some day with your other 10 bulls piece.
But regardless keep up the brilliance man ! Thanks again for this!
Dude! Its like a shamisen from the future! I can imagine that being refined into a string-less electric shamisen, guitar, banjo, ukulele, or anything else for that matter.
Thanks guys,
I’d like to claim I came up with this because I had too much time on my hands, but unfortunately it was primarily an excuse to get away from working on my dissertation for a little while.
Anyway, here’s a nice video of “scoop shamisen” if you haven’t seen it.
Kevin, yes! Let’s definitely think about possibilities for future projects, both electronic and string quartet accompanied.
This is crazy, in the good way!
shovelsen . . . awesome also it is snowing outside here right now what a versatile thing this would be to have . . .
:-O!!! Whoa nellie! Talk about an upgrade to the tradition scoop shamisen! 
That’s blogworthy (the ultimate compliment, imho). Must show to Masahiro!