mark williamson wrote:
> 
> >Having said that...why the hell would you want to use state of the art
> >computer technology to simulate a freaking UKELELE?!?! :)
> 
> Just a starting point - I'm not after perfection here - what I'm looking
> for is very short strings and harsh resonances - the Ukelele is such an
> offensive instrument. Part of my musical explorations at the moment
> is looking at the sounds of folk/traditional  music (not the content though)
> some of the instruments are really bizarre.

Good point.  Another good instrument to look at is the charango, a 10
string ukelele-type instrument from South America, with 5 pairs of
strings tuned in unison. Soundboard of relatively heavy wood, body made
from an armadillo shell.  Probably the only musical instrument that
grosses people out.  Once again, using pluck with short decay length,
going into several parallel reson filters, might have good results. Or,
you could try comb filters, or even reverb, for the body resonances.