[Harp-L] Re stomp box

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Sounds to me as though you want  to build an accoustic stomp box??? I remember being taught that in the old "Punch and Judy" puppet shows they wanted the stick the puppets hit each other with to produce a loud noise, without actually hitting the puppets hard and risking damage to them.  They discovered that if they took two thin slats, with a portion of one as a spacer at the bottom of the stick, it looked like a solid stick, but when they hit the puppet with it, the two sticks slapped together and produced a louder noise than a solid stick, hence the name "slapstick" comedy.  I wonder if you could make something like that work as a foot actuated percussion divice, without an amplifier, which I believe was your goal?

Bruce K Ritter
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