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Images => Themes, Portfolio Series, PaW, or PaM => Topic started by: stenrasmussen on November 28, 2016, 00:04:41
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I would like to see my fellow members' musical instruments.
Here's a glimpse of some of my guitars. In the back to the left is a Strat, the centre one is a self-built PRS style and with its back towards you is my old el-cheapo Martin; a Sigma.
This was shot with a Sigma 35/1.4A...yes... :o
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Good idea for a theme, perhaps I can get around to shooting some of my instruments for this.
Sweet guitars. Mind sharing a bit more about the process of making your own guitar. I've picked up woodworking over the past couple years so naturally making a guitar has crossed my mind. Was yours a kit sort of deal or did you make the body from scratch?
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Nice idea, Sten!
These images were posted here some time ago, but I hope it is appropriate to re-post here. These details were shot at the trade show called Tokyo Handcraft Guitar Festival last year.
First two images were the rosetta and the bridge ornament of a baroque guitar. The last one is the elaborate binding/purfling job of a Torres-inspired original Spanish guitar.
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(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/681/23243056799_41a319c8a3_o.jpg)
A levin acoustic from the early seventies, before the takeover by Sigma i bought new and still have.
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/1/741/21760276113_bc890cefe7_o.jpg)
Hamer sunburst from 1982, modded the electronics which is a sin actually, the original Dimarzio pickups
exchanged for Lawrence 2 L-90 1 L-100
Leaning against a Vox ac15c2
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8671/16509346190_f61b839d09_b.jpg)
Gibson les paul standard from 1987, exchanged the original pickups for low output Ox4 pickups, leaning
against a Marshall 4140 combo
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The violin of Matthys Barnhoorn - on tour with the Band Magna Carta.
Matthys is one of the finest violin players I know (okey I dont know that many )
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Replicas of the ancient string instruments of the lute family with elaborate inlays (#1: Gen-kan and #2 Bi-wa). The original ones were made around 8c.
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My guitar got burned :)
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Somehow I missed this thread first time around.
Love the images from Elsa, Kang and Akira.
But now, I just want to hear Fons playing some of those axes....!
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another guitar
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Herman van Veen presents his violin to me
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My first Hollow body build during nitrocellulose coating and final
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My first Hollow body build during nitrocellulose coating and final
superb lighting!
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Thank you Frank... after a long time
My new toy, one piece flame maple neck
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Wonderful job Nasos!
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So this doesn't really show off the instrument
(and is probably a fair relfection of the stage I've reached in learning to play it)
Thanks to the lmited DOF of the 105mm at this magnification, you're pretty much restricted to admiring some of the threadwork :)
More to follow
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So this doesn't really show off the instrument
(and is probably a fair relfection of the stage I've reached in learning to play it)
Thanks to the lmited DOF of the 105mm at this magnification, you're pretty much restricted to admiring some of the threadwork :)
More to follow
A native American flute? Beautiful aesthetic.
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My new travel bass customized for a tenor piccolo fretless bass.
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Akira, i had the pleasure to listen to you play it :)
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Akira, i had the pleasure to listen to you play it :)
Glad you enjoyed it, Jakov!
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My new travel bass customized for a tenor piccolo fretless bass.
Beautiful instrument, mahogany?
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Beautiful instrument, mahogany?
Thank you, Fons. Yes, the body/neck is made of mahogany. This is made by a Turkish luthier/bass player, and I think the design is brilliant.
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My new travel bass customized for a tenor piccolo fretless bass.
I would love to hear how this sounds Akira
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A native American flute? Beautiful aesthetic.
This is a Bansuri (from India)
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I would love to hear how this sounds Akira
You can watch my video playing it on FB.
This is a Bansuri (from India)
Thank you. I like Hariprasad Chaurasia.
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Thanks Akira.
It was listening to his nephew Rakesh Chaurasia that persuaded me to try to learn.
Several weeks later a mysterious parcel (with typical Indian stitched packaging) arrived from Delhi. Progress has been slow, with occaisional bursts of inspiration.
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My latest wood burning :)
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My latest wood burning :)
Nice parlor.
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My wife took this one in which the dog is telling me enough of that. Guitar is a Martin. Since I only play in the house and yard it is a bit big. But nothing else I have sustains as well.
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My latest wood burning :)
Beautiful work!
My wife took this one in which the dog is telling me enough of that. Guitar is a Martin. Since I only play in the house and yard it is a bit big. But nothing else I have sustains as well.
The dog looks like how we call "Shiba-Inu" in Japan. Cute! The dreadnought looks cool with the herringbone purfling.
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Beautiful work!
The dog looks like how we call "Shiba-Inu" in Japan. Cute! The dreadnought looks cool with the herringbone purfling.
She is a shiba, or at least mostly shiba. We got her as a rescue dog from a family who could not handle her. As you probably know shibas look cute, but often have strong opinions and can be quite fierce. They are quite loyal too.
I’ll try to take and post some photos of another guitar I have which looks more interesting.
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Thanks gents!
Jack, if you ship the guitar to me, I'll ship it back with the dog burned into the wood :)
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She is a shiba, or at least mostly shiba. We got her as a rescue dog from a family who could not handle her. As you probably know shibas look cute, but often have strong opinions and can be quite fierce. They are quite loyal too.
I’ll try to take and post some photos of another guitar I have which looks more interesting.
I haven't seen shiba to be that fierce but know they are surprisingly emotional on their faces.
Am looking for the pictures of your another guitar!
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I haven't seen shiba to be that fierce but know they are surprisingly emotional on their faces.
Am looking for the pictures of your another guitar!
Akira,
Taken with my phone, here is a Kay K-62 arch top from the late 1930’s. Kay is mostly known for cheaper guitars post war, but this was their attempt to compete with the Gibson L-5. It has a carved spruce top with maple back and sides. Kay called it the “Television” model as television had just been invented at that time. It has a few dings and scratches here and there and I had to repair the tailpiece but is doing OK for 80 years old.
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Nice piece of history, Jack!
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Nice Bass Akira! I cant reach your fb page to hear :(
Zang nice burning you make guitars unique :)
This old Kay is wonderful, I do love guitars playing and also building from time to time
The top must be Cedar, its a little unusual for a hollow body the usual is Spruce
I ve build a Cedar hollow body and you may see it in a very early stage, its the same instrument in my previous posts
if your interested in construction and can reed Greek :D you may see it here
https://www.noiz.gr/community/forums/topic/42399-hollow-body-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%AD%CF%82/ (https://www.noiz.gr/community/forums/topic/42399-hollow-body-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%AD%CF%82/)
photo with 50/1.8D
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Nice Bass Akira! I cant reach your fb page to hear :(
Zang nice burning you make guitars unique :)
This old Kay is wonderful, I do love guitars playing and also building from time to time
The top must be Cedar, its a little unusual for a hollow body the usual is Spruce
I ve build a Cedar hollow body and you may see it in a very early stage, its the same instrument in my previous posts
if your interested in construction and can reed Greek :D you may see it here
https://www.noiz.gr/community/forums/topic/42399-hollow-body-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%AD%CF%82/ (https://www.noiz.gr/community/forums/topic/42399-hollow-body-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CE%BA%CE%B5%CF%85%CE%AD%CF%82/)
photo with 50/1.8D
One day I'd like to build a guitar, but I don't have workshop space, nor time... It is great to watch someone else doing it though!
The old catalog for the Kay arch-top says the top is spruce. I think in the US this was most common. Cedar is a bit soft.
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Akira,
Taken with my phone, here is a Kay K-62 arch top from the late 1930’s. Kay is mostly known for cheaper guitars post war, but this was their attempt to compete with the Gibson L-5. It has a carved spruce top with maple back and sides. Kay called it the “Television” model as television had just been invented at that time. It has a few dings and scratches here and there and I had to repair the tailpiece but is doing OK for 80 years old.
Very nice rare guitar, Jack! Among the bass players, Kay is more known as one of the manufacturers of bizarre basses. I know that Epiphone used to be a high-end archtop guitar maker during the pre-war time and until it was bought by Gibson. Your Kay archtop looks like a premium instrument with careful inlay and binding works. Thank you for sharing!
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Nice Bass Akira! I cant reach your fb page to hear :(
This old Kay is wonderful, I do love guitars playing and also building from time to time
The top must be Cedar, its a little unusual for a hollow body the usual is Spruce
I ve build a Cedar hollow body and you may see it in a very early stage, its the same instrument in my previous posts
Yet another fine handcraft work, Nasos!
You need to be my friend on Facebook to watch the movie of me playing this piccolo tenor fretless bass guitar. Please feel free to search for my name (Akira Sakamoto) and send me the request, if you are interested.
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Originally, the piccolo tenor fretless bass utilized a single-coil pickup designed for Fender Jazz Bass that is prone to pickup hum noise. In order to make it silent, I bought two identical Jazz Bass pickups, removed a ceramic magnet from one of them to use it as a hum-cancelling dummy coil which is connected to another pickup in parallel in a reversed phase/polarity. Here is how the modified guts look like. The hum noise is effectively cancelled.
I put the removed ceramic magnet onto the same magnet of the pickup to increase the output. It worked well, but the out put signal needed to be boosted a bit. So, I built a small preamp that was to be attatched to the strap.
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Originally, the piccolo tenor fretless bass utilized a single-coil pickup designed for Fender Jazz Bass that is prone to pickup hum noise. In order to make it silent, I bought two identical Jazz Bass pickups, removed a ceramic magnet from one of them to use it as a hum-cancelling dummy coil which is connected to another pickup in parallel in a reversed phase/polarity. Here is how the modified guts looks like. The hum noise is effectively cancelled.
I put the removed ceramic magnet onto the same magnet of the pickup to increase the output. It worked well, but the out put signal needed to be boosted a bit. So, I built a small preamp that was to be attatched to the strap.
Clever and skillfull job Akira.
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Clever and skillfull job Akira.
Thank you, Fons. That was actually a pretty old trick I had forgot for some years...
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In 2006, I visited C.F. Martin Guitar Company for the special article of a Japanese magazine dedicated to the acoustic guitars. The images are of Martin D-100 Deluxe which was limited edition of 50 celebrating the production of the serial number 1 million guitar. The body is of rare Brazilian rosewood (Darbergia nigra). Hope you enjoy these highly elaborate inlay works.
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In 2006, I visited C.F. Martin Guitar Company for the special article of a Japanese magazine dedicated to the acoustic guitars. The images are of Martin D-100 Deluxe which was limited edition of 50 celebrating the production of the serial number 1 million guitar. The body is of rare Brazilian rosewood (Darbergia nigra). Hope you enjoy these highly elaborate inlay works.
This is a stunning piece of art! This was not for sale, I guess.
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What an art!
Thank you Akira!
My personal preference is a simple guitar decoration, wood maters 8)
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This is a stunning piece of art! This was not for sale, I guess.
Indeed, yes, Zang! These guitars were on display in Martin Museum in Nazareth, Pa, but the same models were actually sold, probably to the collectors.
What an art!
Thank you Akira!
My personal preference is a simple guitar decoration, wood maters 8)
You are welcome, Nasos! I agree. Although I appreciate such elaborate works of art, I would prefer instruments with minimal or no decorations but quality tonewoods.
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Indeed, yes, Zang! These guitars were on display in Martin Museum in Nazareth, Pa, but the same models were actually sold, probably to the collectors.
Oh, so it was in the US. The art looks very oriental, though. Thanks Akira for sharing!
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I just happen to have a photo of one of my guitars, since given to my daughter who is a well-known singer/songwriter. This is a Gibson Nick Lucas Special, one of only two made especially for my brother Dan Erlewine, who is a well known guitar maker and repairman. These two made by Gibson for Dan have short-scale necks and my brother picked out all the wood, etc. Bob Dylan played a Nick Lucas Special for many years. I traveled with Dylan, hitchhiking across country with him in 1961 and helped Dylan put on a concert, etc. I was part of the Folk Revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
This taken with the Nikon Z7 with the Nikkor Noct f/0.95 lens.
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I just happen to have a photo of one of my guitars, since given to my daughter who is a well-known singer/songwriter. This is a Gibson Nick Lucas Special, one of only two made especially for my brother Dan Erlewine, who is a well known guitar maker and repairman. These two made by Gibson for Dan have short-scale necks and my brother picked out all the wood, etc. Bob Dylan played a Nick Lucas Special for many years. I traveled with Dylan, hitchhiking across country with him in 1961 and helped Dylan put on a concert, etc. I was part of the Folk Revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
This taken with the Nikon Z7 with the Nikkor Noct f/0.95 lens.
A rare guitar with the great family history! I didn't know your daughter is singer songwriter:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Erlewine
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The elusive Martin D-100 was shot with a 7MP Sony Cyber Shot. Here are a couple of other images from the same camera.
The instrument shown here is called "gumbri", "gimbri" or "sintir" which is originally a Gnawa instrument but also popular among Maghreb countries. Its body is made with a hollowed log and a sheet of camel skin.
The guy holding the gumbri is Aziz Sahmaoui who came to Japan as member of Zawinul Syndicate.
The second shows elaborate decoration on the skin and the neck.
The instrument sounds like a bass, and I fell in love with its sound immediately after I had heard its sound on "Gnawa Music of Marrakesh - Night Spirit Masters" CD produced by Bill Laswell.
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Here is another photo with that guitar at a concert. My daughter May Erlewine with the Gibson Nick Lucas Special at the Wealthy Theater in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Nikkor 70-200 f/2.8.
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I just happen to have a photo of one of my guitars, since given to my daughter who is a well-known singer/songwriter. This is a Gibson Nick Lucas Special, one of only two made especially for my brother Dan Erlewine, who is a well known guitar maker and repairman. These two made by Gibson for Dan have short-scale necks and my brother picked out all the wood, etc. Bob Dylan played a Nick Lucas Special for many years. I traveled with Dylan, hitchhiking across country with him in 1961 and helped Dylan put on a concert, etc. I was part of the Folk Revival in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
This taken with the Nikon Z7 with the Nikkor Noct f/0.95 lens.
Great news Michael to hear that Dan is your brother! I know him from the various music magazines since 1980-90 and as an amateur luthier I learned a lot from his instructional videos on the net!
He is one of the living legends in guitar repair and craftsmanship of our days!
Now I can see that you share the same passion and perfection in your work :)
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The guy holding the gumbri is Aziz Sahmaoui who came to Japan as member of Zawinul Syndicate.
Nice pictures! Nice to see you in the mirror too! :)
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Nice pictures! Nice to see you in the mirror too! :)
Thank you, Zang. Yes, it could be posted to the selfie thread. :)
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From the event yesterday.
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Its name is just timely, ironically...
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Its name is just timely, ironically...
Good spot Akira
I had to check what this box of tricks is good for. It turns out...
"Alpha·Omicron delivers..........and bone-crushing sound. "
:o :o
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Good spot Akira
I had to check what this box of tricks is good for. It turns out...
"Alpha·Omicron delivers..........and bone-crushing sound. "
:o :o
As a bass distortion pedal, it sounds nice. :)
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From the event yesterday.
I love the old time tone of the pictures. Good work, Aikira.
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I love the old time tone of the pictures. Good work, Aikira.
Thank you, Zang. The atmosphere and the music was inspiring.
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So I'd heard the Donovan song about the Hurdy Gurdy man, but never seen one till now.
According to Wikipedia "The hurdy-gurdy is generally thought to have originated from fiddles in either Europe or the Middle East some time before the eleventh century A.D."
There's a handle on the lower left which rotates a wheel. This rubs on strings
- the two central ones (whose pitch can be changed using the keys) plus
- drone strings (as in bagpipes) on either side
I'm amazed at the complexity of something going back almost a thousand years
The second image shows ancient kings playing one at the Pórtico de la Gloria in the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Thanks Colin for the image and informative comment. Yes, quite complex considering its antiquity.
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So I'd heard the Donovan song about the Hurdy Gurdy man, but never seen one till now.
According to Wikipedia "The hurdy-gurdy is generally thought to have originated from fiddles in either Europe or the Middle East some time before the eleventh century A.D."
There's a handle on the lower left which rotates a wheel. This rubs on strings
- the two central ones (whose pitch can be changed using the keys) plus
- drone strings (as in bagpipes) on either side
I'm amazed at the complexity of something going back almosy a thousand years
The second image shows ancient kings playing one at the Pórtico de la Gloria in the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
This is a very educational shot showing the inside of the key mechanism. Apparently, this hurdy-gurdy allows fine adjustment of each notes. Thank you for sharing!
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You're welcome Hugh & Akira.
I'll leave it to one of our Swedish members to tell us more about the even more fiendish Nyckelharpa
https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/umiqeb/the_nyckelharpa_a_traditional_swedish_instrument/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x