My Music Collection
I have enjoyed playing a 12 string guitar for 40 years. In the lasttwenty years I have added many other instruments to my collection.
My 12-string is an Alvarez and is still my favorite.
I also have several electric 6-strings, a lot of acoustic 6-strings, and a classical 6-string.
Among my other instruments, you will find:
A bodhran {bow-ran} (Irish percussion instrument) that I bought at the Renaissance Festival.
A 78-string hammered dulcimer that I built from a kit from Lark in the Morning.
A bagpipe for which I don't have the lung power that I bought from Lark.
A flute that I inherited from my neice, Erin, when she quit high school band.
A small lap harp that I bought for my wife.
A homemade PVC pipe saxophone.
A homemade PVC 6 hole flute that plays rather nicely.
A recorder that I bought at a music shop.
Three bamboo flutes in various keys that I purchased from Eric the Flutemaker at Dickens on the Strand.
A set of Sasato whistles (one fipple and three bodies - A, C, D).
One oak pennywhistle purchased at Ren Fest.
Two Clarke pennywhistles, one a gift and one purchased from a music shop (keys C & D).
I recently sold a 58-string hammered dulcimer that I built from plans from MusicMakers.
Three banjos, a 4-string banjo and two 5-strings.
An accordion given to me by my brother-in-law.
A mandolin that I bought online.
An electric bass guitar.
I plan to add to my collection:
Another harp.
A violin.
Probably loads of whistles and flutes, I buy them quite often.
At one time I also owned:
An upright piano that I found on a curb and then had to leave behind when I moved 200 miles.
A cheap violin that got smashed by a runaway piece of plywood.
A Limerick lap harp that I built myself from plans I bought from Musicmakers [it died a
couple of years ago in a tragic turn of events].
I'm a Jack of all instruments, master of none
(which is not bad for a guy who can't read music).