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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I don't know about that one. With all that fancy inlay it looks like it could be one of the Antonio Tsai specials. And those tuning pegs appear to be friction pegs. Hard to tune up sometimes.
Bill Snyder
Now when asked if you play anything, you can respond, "Yeah, you know, tenor guitar, ukulele, and a little mandolin".
"Mongo only pawn in game of life." --- Mongo
It's not the smallest instrument ever made though. That distinction would go to this nanoguitar, made by nanoluthier Dustin W. Carr in 1997 at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_guitarThe nano guitar is about as long as one-twentieth of the diameter of a human hair, 10 micrometers or 10,000 nanometers long. The six strings are 50 nanometers wide each. The entire guitar is the size of an average red blood cell. The guitar is carved from a grain of crystalline silicon by scanning a laser over a film called a 'resist'. This technique is called Electrobeam Lithography. It can be played by tiny lasers in an atomic force microscope, and these act as the pick. The Nano Guitar is 17 octaves higher than a normal guitar.
That's playing a little guitar indeed!
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
Changing strings on that has got to be a real pain....It's not the smallest instrument ever made though. That distinction would go to this nanoguitar, made by nanoluthier Dustin W. Carr in 1997 at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility.
Living’ in the Mitten
I can only imagine how pricey the shipping must have been!
"Music is the only noise for which one is obliged to pay." ~ Alexander Dumas
If I order one of these guitars, I would not know whether I received it or not.
It could just be my eyes but I think your fret spacing may be off ? How's the intonation ?
If you decide to put a pickup on it, getting a preamp will be a necessity.
...Steve
Current Stable: Two Tenor Guitars (Martin 515, Blueridge BR-40T), a Tenor Banjo (Deering GoodTime 17-Fret), a Mandolin (Burgess #7). two Banjo-Ukes and five Ukuleles..
The inventory is always in some flux, but that's part of the fun.
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