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Built by our friend John Knutson, Ted's main bass is a Messenger Upright
Electric Bass. It has an amazzzzing tone and sustain AND it's less
filling (in the back of the truck)! Check out the
Messenger Upright Electric Bass pages.
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This is a set of and a single bamboo Anklung. This set is tuned in a non-traditional western diatonic scale (do ra me...). The Anklung is indigenous to Bali and Java. On long term loan from Betty Nudleman of the Sonoma County Folk Society
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Steel string, Model OM2 Collings
Guitar. Made in Austin, Texas, the OM stands for
Orchestra Model. This was a popular size and shape (smaller,
thinner, narrower waist than the Dreadnaught style) for
guitars between about 1910 to 1940, and is making a big
comeback. The Gorbichan is from India. It consists of a bamboo bowl with a paper drum head stretched across the bottom, a long split piece of bamboo and a string running from the tuning peg at the top to the drum head. It's held and squeezed in the center while the string is being plucked or bowed. Squeezing lowers the pitch. |
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Chip's new (old)10 string Electric Cittern. Custom built by Fatdog at Subway Guitars in Berkeley, CA, it's a hybrid instrument constructed from an old ('70's) Dan Electro parts. It has a hollowbody "longhorn" body and a short scale (21") neck with original "Lipstick" pickups. It's tuned GDGDG and sounds cool acoustic or electric. The sound sample below is a combination of "plugging in" and micing the instrument acoustically.
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