Didgeridoo Stuff
KOZO SUGANUMA Didgeridoo~Jew’s Harp~Drum solo– you gotta hear Kozo Suganuma to believe your ears!!! Innovative and daring! Amazing!
How to Choose a Didgeridoo
The video is a demo of a remarkable piece of playable sculpture. I propose to buy them unpainted and paint, carve, wood-burn and decorate with a variety of beads, feathers and textiles, and then sell on the open market.
Herein is the kind of data I try to give you every day in my blogs — to save you time, energy, money and most of all, dead ends. It’s not at all tricky to find good didges, but selecting one with which to ACTUALLY BOND is like choosing a mate, mate.
What should you be looking for in a didge, especially if you know nothing about them but want one anyway??? Continue reading for more info…
Hand Painting Reunion Blues Gig Bags
Painting a Reunion Blues Gig-Bag for a sax player. They are pricey, but they last 10 times longer and are 100% tougher than any competitor’s gig bag.
I hand paint about a dozen a year. Each one is uniquely designed, no two alike. The bag itself runs about $300 and my signed painting job is an additional $500. Guitar bags tend to be about $200-$700 new — don’t buy one used — and are typically easily and cheaply available on eBay and Amazon.
I Been Busy
Yep, it’s true. The image above is from my 2012 calendar, which is still available. I’m painting miniatures (5″ x 7″ landscapes in acrylic) again. Original paintings and high-grade art-prints can also be ordered.
Been up to my eyeballs in preparation of several very exciting new apps for the marketplace. At the same time, I’ve been working on PogTown this past week — a few surprises there for you for sure…
Moksha & the Saw of Damocles
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Thanks to someone who gave me a wonderful birthday gift, which I will soon replace with another just like it, Moksha, of the amazing “Country Eastern” musical experience, Hu Dost — which is currently on tour — now has an official musicalsaw.com tenor musical saw to add to their List of Mystical Inventory. Here’s an example of a musical saw used in a highly technical manner:
Back in 1949, I heard my music teacher at Camp Woodland, Grant Rogers, play the musical saw; then Joe Hickerson played it, after which Joanna Cazden, Louise deCormier and, as I remember it, Happy Traum or Geoff Kaufman tried it.
Well, heck-darn, I asked for, and got, a musical saw for my 70th birthday last December 27th.
When I first encountered the musical saw it was immediately post-war, World War II (which is the Roman numeral “II”, not the Arabic numerals which we use today, as in “World War Eleven”, as some kids insist on calling it) when instruments made of steel were almost unobtainable, and was amazed at how much like the newly invented Electronic Theramin it sounded. Here are some stunning examples: Continue reading