And many years ago - before the main early music revival and Ovation-
Maccaferro (Sp?) made a serious plastic guitar. Maccafero, of course,
was the luthier made famous by Django Rheinhardt.
Likewise, the turtleback instruments of Ovation are quite serviceable,
but not the same as acoustic
And many years ago - before the main early music revival and
Ovation-Maccaferro (Sp?) made a serious plastic guitar.
Maccafero, of course, was the luthier made famous by Django Rheinhardt.
Very correct, Daniel, although it would have been more germane to the
point if you had also mentioned
Ray and others
I own a plastic Maccaferri ukulele. Apparently there were about 9
million of them sold (says Wikipedia). The 'chord-finder' gadget is
not moulded onto the neck, but attaches with little hooks and straps.
It is a real instrument, loud, bright, and has good intonation. By the
way: I
On Fri, May 15, 2009, William Brohinsky tiorbin...@gmail.com said:
Earlier in the renaissance revival, George Kelischek engineered
inexpensive krummhorns using ABS plastic and plastic reeds. They were
far cheaper than wooden krummhorns, and were intended to be quite
popular with schools and
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 4:19 PM, dem...@suffolk.lib.ny.us wrote:
In this very list we have admitted on several occaisions that there is a
need for inexpensive playable instruments. Give this fellows ideas some
room, he just might be able to pull it off - and better for him to do so
with
Didn't know about the reeds, but I did have to
glue a cracked, plastic uke back together once
during my unfortunate year as a repair drone in a
really 2nd rate guitar dealer/repair shop. As to
the germanery of plastic reeds, we have been
struggling for the past 30 years or more to get
out
On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net wrote:
It's starting to sound a little Star Trekkish- Computer, (Patrick Stewart's
voice) eight course Frei tenor, 62 cm. SL, A-415 pitch standard, and a dry
martini, please.
Earl grey, you mean.
David - hidden trekky:
On May 16, 2009, at 6:00 PM, lute...@aol.com wrote:
Dear all
I won't be able to reply to emails, send out orders etc between
16th and 24th May, as, God willing, I will be playing
accompaniments for singers on a boat in Venice between those dates.
In the meantime here are some details of
