So I work with this lady from Georgia who tells me in her country there is this box shaped three stringed instrument called Panduri. It is built and drying in the kitchen and I am so impatien to try it I begin to look into internet about it. It see
Read more…Ismayil Meqchiyev: "If the tanbur (a string instrument) will become world-famous, it will forget me."
So this guy had a stroke about twenty years. And with only one arm, he builds these amazing hollowed out instruments from one single block of wodd
Read more…These guys are amazing. Been busy with a couple of gourds, but it is time to build a kabosy now.
Read more…This is an amazing beautiful Instrument from Brazil and look what this guy did with it. So inspiring.
Read more…So, after months and months of failed experiments, last night I am watching Christopher Nolan´s "Inception" with my son, I begin sketching and come up with a perfect idea. To fasten a cigar box to a typewriter. So I jump on my olive green Hispano
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Been out of touch for a while, but kept on working. Learning how to play the Spanish bandurria and came to start making a guitar from scratch out of some oil boxes. They are big enough and have enough twang and resonation.
I want to make
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For the first time in my life, a complete stranger asked me to make a guitar for him.
He wants something of the dobro type. He wants "a tin guitar to play delta blues with"
I told him I could make a cigar box guitar with a resonator on it.
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Read more…Ever noticed that sawing a wooden hanger in half gives it a perfect shape for a ukulele neckpiece ?. I use three halves glued together, with a fretboard on top and voila!
As far as tuners go, chinese chopsticks are marvelous friction tuning pegs.
Read more…Check out this beauty from the North of Argentina
It is made out of a gourd. Invented and created entirely by Elpidio Herrera, tuned into "diablo" tuning" A D A F C, some people like them B E B G D. The most amazing thing about it is those two
Read more…This is the Khonkhota. From Potosi, Bolivia. Another box instrument. Been trying to build one forever.
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Last night went to the movies to watch "Pasolini" , and on the way out, in this boring neighborhood of mine, there was not a single bar open, just the local pool hall. Dreadful music, expensive beer and not a female in sight. What was I
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