Calling all you sleeve note musos out there, here are the horrendous devices with which horny old Timbo slowly masticates your tender shell likes!
New Goldtone short scale banjo with resonator
Nylon strung banjo with Aquila gut substitute strings and resonator.
Fylde cittern (tuned as a banjo)
Guitars
Pilgrim
12
string.
Guitar
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Ovation
Preacher
Stereo
Electric
Guitar
Ivor Mairants Flamenco Guitar
Ozark Acoustic Resonator Bass
Moon Lute (courtesy of Barmouth laundrette)
Violin
Electric violin of dubious ebay lineage, now set up as a fretted "viol" by Cardigan Bay luthier Chris Shaw (not too vile a job, I hope Chris!)
Mandoline Family
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Venerable Savanna banjo mandoline.
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Harmony electric acoustic mandoline.
Troubadour octave mandola
Fylde cittern (tuned as a banjo, also cited in the banjo section)
>Electronic
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Vintage Yamaha DX7 synth
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Wind & Free Reed
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New baroque chalumeau in C
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New Piano Accordion (an extraordinary present from Mick of Cloud Cuckoo)
Clarkes C Original. & Aluminum high D whistles
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My dad’s spectral battered Hohner harmonica (It's quite a blow, but my harp playing sucks as well!)
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Corton wooden clarinet with Van Doren jazz mouthpiece (long slow notes with lugubrious vibrato)
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Zaphoon(plastic sax)
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Percussion
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Arabian tablas (played using a modified classical Egyptian style).
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Small rattly darabuka
Home-made Arabian bass davul drum.
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Jaws harps.
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Antic Earthworks Appalachian mouth bow
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large wooden tunable Djenbe made in Java (adapted now to be tuned in future like a giant darabuka for finger drumming)
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Latin Percussion bongos (with a newly acquired heavy duty stand that places the drums at a really awkward height for playing, and they don't sound as good as they do in the box below.)
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A Percussion Box which was an ancient grammar school woodwork project originally intended for a cactus garden .This was completed by the outraged woodwork teacher, because I could not finish a piece of woodwork to save my life, without it falling to pieces. I usually play the bongos in this box as they sound great, and I'll continue to do so, as the new stand is cr*p!
'It's a poor show Davies, when one cannot construct the simple box!' [Mr Smith of Apsley Grammar school, Hemel-Hempstead UK, circa 1959)
Remo large Buffalo drum
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LP maracas
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SlapDrum' Lapdrum without a snare. (I’m supposed to be strictly non-commercial, I know, but this is a unique and marvelous mini cajon. I’m praying for sterling to recover from the credit crunch, so I can afford the Chris’ snared Cajon bongos. I need them for a song called Summer in an Empty Room!)
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Skinless tambourine and Remo Rig tambourine
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Wooden bones and claves.
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Small, thin, cheap saucepans and metal vacuum flasks (played as found bell drums)
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Used Zoom digital drum machine(astonishingly good sounds from a budget machine, after earlier battles for rhythmic survival with analogue dinosaurs in the eighties)
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Yamaha DX7 synthesiser (some delightful synth percussion sounds, marimba, gongs, log drum, tympani in particular.)
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Analogue gorilla clap (a King Kong of an effect from my old analogue drum machine)
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Hand claps. (Best drums in the world, and so neglected in the West).
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