May 06, 2005
Baby Gramps
Playing a double guitar. No, the 80’s are not over yet
The 950 and other Novelty Guitars from Ed Roman Guitars
Videos of Django Reinhardt playing. (From ”Found on the Web”)
Scotty’s cigar box guitars - How to build them, how to play them
A virtual tour of McCabe's Guitar Store in Santa Monica
"I'm Gonna Eat Some Worms" by Baby Gramps. (From ”Bifurcated Rivets”)
The following is a brief photo description of the making of an aluminum 5 string violin/viola . (From “Inflight Correction”)
A site devoted to people who are already playing a bowed dulcimer, who are interested in playing a bowed dulcimer, or wonder what is a bowed dulcimer is
Bash the Trash - All about building musical instruments from recycled/reused materials (For kids)
Many Odd Links of Unusual String Instruments and other Strange Musical Links Here
May 6, 2005 in Music - String Instruments | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
March 26, 2005
What is a Hurdy-Gurdy
How to build a Laser harp, by "Jarrelook"
Gypsy Jazz guitar as played by 21-year old German prodigy Joscho Stephan
The homemade instruments of composer and instrument designer Buzz Kimball
Here comes The Hurdy-Gurdy Man (“singing songs of love”. From ‘A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments’)
Watch Eddie Peabody "King of the Banjo" playing "St. Louis Blues”
A Banjo on my Knee. A Vintage Banjo Gallery. (From ”The Cartoonist”)
An Homage to Fairbanks banjos
Over the last five decades air guitar has been created, perfected, and eventually elevated to the status of a bona fide art form. While air guitar is a fascinating and rewarding pastime, the Brothers Randall believe that an even higher form of art is that of "object guitar", the use of various objects in order to mimic the playing of a guitar
“Broken Sorrow” from Nuttin but stringz - Rap & Violins
(Art above by George Callaghan). Many Odd Links of Unusual String Instruments and other Strange Musical Links Here
March 26, 2005 in Music - String Instruments | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack
December 16, 2004
Exotic Guitars
Guitar table tops, from the same guy who did the Fish Highway
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are warm, entertaining, thought-provoking and funny…
Skeletar Guitar. My electric guitars were once described as encompassing 3 major themes of rock and roll: love, sex, and death. This guitar could be dedicated to any of the guitar heroes who died in their prime
Charles Johnson’s Vintage Mandolin
Notes from Amateur Luthier, Kathy Matsushita. (Found on The Musical Instrument Makers Forum)
Is your violin a genuine Stradivarius?
Photo above found in Found Magazine. Many Odd Links of Unusual String Instruments and other Strange Musical Links Here
December 16, 2004 in Music - String Instruments | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack
October 02, 2004
Guitar Gods
On a rating scale of 1 to 10 of 80's Metal Cheese Factor, guitar "god" Guy Mann-Dude rates an eight, simply on basis of his stage name alone
The Alan G. Bates Harmonica Collection from the National Music Museum at the University of South Dakota
Album containing photos of Brad's awesome guitar constructed entirely out of Lego pieces
5-neck guitar. (From “Cheek”)
The Harpsichord Music of Antonio Soler
Fender guitars collected by GG Jaguar
I am on vacation and will be away for a few weeks. This post has been pre-blogged for your enjoyment. Any complains will have to wait until my return. Many Odd Links of Unusual String Instruments and other Strange Musical Links Here
October 2, 2004 in Music - String Instruments | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack
January 31, 2004
Old & Odd Links of String Instruments
2 Guitars At Once, By John Bowden (From "Weird Links") - 8/29/03
A Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
Air Guitar World Championship in Oulu, Finland in August
Capek, Czech Mandolin builder
Chrysalis Foundation, building new acoustic musical instruments - 11/17/03
Dr. Horsehair Music Co. - Banjo recordings and Banjo instruction books by Bob Flesher in the modern-day clawhammer banjo or frailing style and the old-time minstrel banjo stroke style
Eastman Archtop guitars (From "Bifurcated Rivets")
Fender World - 8/9/03
Gibson Custom debuts 'The Birth of Christ tribute guitar' (- 11/11/03) and Gibson cashes in as baby boomers rock on - Nostalgia fuels guitar maker's revival
"Guitarded", make guitar noises with your mouth... (From "Kottke" )
Guitorgan is a strange piece of equipment
Guzheng - Chinese Zither - One of the most ancient Chinese traditional music instruments
Harley Davidson Carvin, from Doug Rowell’s Carved Guitars
Hear "Fairport Convention"s Richard Thompson perform an acoustic version of "Oops, I Did It Again!" - not what you would expect. (From "Sciatica") - 11/18/03
"Hello, Let's play the ukulele!", Ukulele Lessons - 9/23/03
Irregular Orbit, Ookworld's wobbly satellite
Matt Haimovitz, World-class cellist likes gigs at bars - 12/28/03
Mini Guiters of The Beatles from Miniature guitars
Paco de Lucia, a great Flamenco guitarist - 12/10/03
Pat Metheny's "Pikasso I" Guitar
Playmate of the month (From "Fresh'n'Juicy") - 8/23/03
Punk Uke with Uke til you puke
"Rhinestone Cowboy" Contrabass Giant Balalaika - 11/25/03
Rock that Uke and Ukulele Hall of Fame Museum (From ”J-Walk”)
Saro & Luca Di Bartolo Photographs Violins
Star Guitar Collections (From "TK-Blog") - 10/18/03
String Station, one of many Oddmusic Musical Instrument Gallery
The Enchanted World of Petty Booka
The Knutsen family (?)
The Lap Steel Guitar is held in your lap facing toward you. The strings are raised above the fretboard; rather than pressing them to the fretboard, a steel bar is pressed against the strings.
The Ultimate Plectrum Banjo Player's Guide
Tim Hunkin’s “The Rudiments of Guitars, 6 stringed instruments with a sound box, for plucking or strumming
Many Odd Links of Unusual String Instruments and other Strange Musical Links Here
January 31, 2004 in Music - String Instruments | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack