Guess who came over for dinner.
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PD - some of them are playable.
The one on the left plays, it wasn’t really created as an instrument, but as an ornamental object according to the receipt - it was purchased by Steve’s uncle in Japan ages ago. The one on the right is a real instrument (but I can’t remember its name), it came from Steve’s family. Both have strings that vibrate at certain piano key frequencies, so I have to put pieces of felt on the strings sometimes to keep them quiet!
The violin came from my Dad’s family in England - it’s got a crack in the body, and the bridge is missing (I think the crack was caused by the bridge) and it has not been played for as long as I can remember.
Here I am in about 1964 playing the harpsichord my Dad built for my mom from a kit. The violin is on the shelves - that my Dad also built. He once told me that he signed up for a shop class just so he could make these shelves for our living room.
This one came from one of my Dad’s trips to Serbia/Croatia - it’s real, it’s called a “Gusle”. I like it for obvious reasons.
When my Dad and Stepmother moved into senior living, I asked for the instruments, and a huge box arrived with some of these. There are a couple of unplayable concertina type instruments and a mangled old trumpet and several wooden recorders as well - that all lived on those shelves my dad built.
The ukuleles are playable.
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Lovely photos and interesting room!
I think its a Yueqin on left and Pipa on right, old Chinese instruments(MrsA watches a lot of Chinese&Korean movies on youtube). Gusle is new to me.
Our visitors from Seattle who stayed with us last week were really into ukulele playing.
They had a carbon fibre electronic model. Also a hand-built by Luthier wooden one. Sounded a bit different to our £40 plywood job. -
Yes, I think so. It was held together with tape.
I don’t know what happened to it, I remember Steve getting it to make some noise, so it was around til ‘fairly’ recently. There was also a really cool wooden flute with some silver keys, but that disappeared too. -
Lovely photos and interesting room!
I think its a Yueqin on left and Pipa on right, old Chinese instruments(MrsA watches a lot of Chinese&Korean movies on youtube). Gusle is new to me.
Our visitors from Seattle who stayed with us last week were really into ukulele playing.
They had a carbon fibre electronic model. Also a hand-built by Luthier wooden one. Sounded a bit different to our £40 plywood job.@AndyD said in Guess who came over for dinner.:
Lovely photos and interesting room!
I think its a Yueqin on left and Pipa on right, old Chinese instruments(MrsA watches a lot of Chinese&Korean movies on youtube). Gusle is new to me.
Our visitors from Seattle who stayed with us last week were really into ukulele playing.
They had a carbon fibre electronic model. Also a hand-built by Luthier wooden one. Sounded a bit different to our £40 plywood job.Oh and thank you for the instrument names! It does look like a Yueqin. I have the purchase receipt somewhere. The other instrument has animal skin covering the body. I will take some closeups of it. I love the ukulele, though I haven’t been playing much lately. I have a tenor and a baritone, and Steve learned the bass so he could play with me, but he has Dupuytren’s contracture in both hands and has not been able to play for about a year. He’s going to have surgery this fall.
