November 03, 2008
The Original Plumber
Adrian Holovaty is a lead developer for the Django open source application framework. In 2006, he stumbled upon VGMix.com, an online community of amateur musicians who make recordings of video-game music. So he spent some time recording a guitar version of the Super Mario Bros 2 level-one theme, in the gypsy jazz style of Django Reinhardt
More by Adrian, Once Upon a Dream and Improvisation #2
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March 18, 2008
Guitar by Carlos Ruben Gomez
The YouTube Channel of Doctor Carlos Ruben Gomez
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December 27, 2007
Symphony for Theramin & Matryoshka
38-string acoustic Harp-Sympitar with custom piezo pickups, and other instruments built by Fred Carlson
Everything you always wanted to know about fiddling but were afraid to ask
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October 09, 2007
Wild Card
A Japanese Wild Card (5 flavors available)
Zelda medley for string quartet
Northeastern Congolese musical instruments. (From The American Museum Congo expedition 1909-1915)
Wisconsin Man Creates Glass Guitar
“I deserve a music box moment today” - Abecedarian’s daily Music Box
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April 16, 2007
Lightning Strikes
Peo Kindgren plays Baden Powell "Retrato Brazileiro"
Bruce Springsteen joined a street musician who was playing "The River" on a street in Copenhagen (about 20 years ago)
Zack Kim Yong Woon is a brilliant, young Korean guitarist living in Kuala Lumpur. Watch him play two guitars at one time
Guitarist Eliot Fisk performing Paganini's Caprice #24 at the New York Guitar Festival's third biennial Guitar Marathon at the 92nd Street Y's Kaufman Auditorium. (More YouTube)
Lightning Strikes sung by Klaus Nomi and 133 of the Strangest Music Videos Of All Time
Also: Pavarotti loves elephants. (From Steconews)
Breaking! The Bath School Disaster was the deadliest act of mass murder in a school in U.S. history
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December 29, 2006
'Adagio for Strings'
All of J-Walk’s Banjo posts in one place
Praise the Lord! Tom Dooley’s 1000 acoustic guitars
Tiny Drums Ambient Sound Generator
Fetish Italian guitars of the 1960s
Music geek fun with Google Patents Search
Julio Iglesias and Johnny Carson sing "To All the Girls I've Loved Before"
Blender’s list of the 50 most talentless music acts of all time
Barber's 'Adagio for Strings' (William Orbit) and the original’s impact
Here’s the homepage of Young @ Heart group (who harmonized 'Fix You' so nicely)
Renaissance - The Village People as you've never seen them before
A huge list of Elvis fan club (but no links. From Black Stump)
All about Electric violins
(Jerry Garcia’s “Smoke gets in your eyes” above from Rivets. The original)
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October 31, 2006
Joyce Silveira Palhano de Jesus
How to build a homemade Vulcan lyre, just like the one Mr. Spock played. (From Brain Kane)
Louis Johnson - Slap Bass Dying fish
What kind of guitar is she playing?
Also: 2003 Ladies in waiting for Gene Simmons
Classical Sheet Music Archive
Henry Diltz rock photography from the 1960s
A tribute to Barbi Benton, the singer
All the strings on Amazon (And all the many mosaics from Coverpop by jim bumgardner)
Scott Williams' tribute to the facial expressions that squeeze those notes out of guitars - Guitar Face
The real story of Flipside Magazine, a Punk fanzine from 1977 Whittier
54 covers of Girl From Ipanema
Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music
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August 12, 2006
Sounds & smells good
Single Malt Guitars were constructed from washback vessels and casks from the Talisker Distillery on the Isle of Skye
Postcards of Vintage Harp Guitar
The Greatest Music Artifact Of The 20th Century: Robert Johnson's Gibson L1 offered for $6M. Sold!
Also, A Very Rare Opportunity: Better-than-new Orsi E-flat Contrabass Saxophone for Sale - Only $22,500
The Official String Theory Web Site - It's the 21st century! Time to feed your mind
Musical Obits And Near Obits
20 Classic Rock Tribute Bands on YouTube
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May 11, 2006
So you always wanted to play the harp, but…
Nabuaki Date is a Japanese artist who makes ukuleles out of parts of Japanese buildings that are to be demolished. Each house is documented through photographs and the parts for the ukulele are chosen. The finished ukulele is given to the owner of the house as a visual and acoustic embodiment of their former home. (From Muddy Basin Ramblers)
Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain plays Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit”
The Ham Violin. A violin, shaped like a fine leg of Serrano Ham, created by Jaromir Bazant, 'Maestro Luthier' of Valencia. (From Exploding Aardvark)
Harpists on flickr
The bouzouki's long journey from rembetika to rock 'n' roll and beyond
Amusing Bass/Guitars Index. (Thank you, Jeff)
Jesselli Guitar online gallery. (Thank you, MB)
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October 30, 2005
Hip-hop violinist
Hip-hop violinist Miri Ben-Ari. Watch & listen
Guitar Logo Game. Guess these popular Guitar manufacturers
Alan Bond's Mandolin Museum
Edifying Pictures for the collector & the historian. From acoustic musician Joe Bethancourt
The new Hyperviolin, one of many Unusual String Instruments
Olga - The internet's first (1992) and best (no duplicate files) archive for guitar tab and chord files
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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)
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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
“Broken Sorrow” from Nuttin but stringz - Rap & Violins
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
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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?
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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 (1) | 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 - 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
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