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My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:35 am
by Toonster
I had a workshop yesterday where we built a guitar.. A very awesome one

It's called White Eagle Tailed Bridge Guitar.
And this is it:

It's the one with the guitarneck, the other wooden colored one is my 12 string electric overtone zither
It looks really punk right?
But what's most interesting is that it has 2 string fields, the first one is obviously a normal guitar, the second string field behind the bridge is 2 octaves higher!
Both string fields have a single coil pick-up which have an own output but can also be switched to both pick-ups via one output..
What is cool is that the second string field resonates when you play your normal guitar lines.. But you can also play on the second string field and let the normal guitar field resonate..
As you can see, lots of possibilities
Here is a video from youtube that can show some of the possible sounds.. But I have to say, that in real life it is way more awesome
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSsxCZywEi4[/youtube]
I hope everybody understand my little story, if not ask, cause maybe my English sucks a little in this pretty long text

Yuri Landman's website:
http://www.hypercustom.com/
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 6:52 am
by Dexterecus
fucking awesome!
Do you know if Yuri sometimes does workshops in Belgium? I'd love to do something like this!
EDIT: Just checked his webiste and he's actually coming to my shithole of a town in May for a workshop

Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:07 am
by Toonster
Cool! I can really recommend it, it's cheap, simple, but you have a great secret weapon

Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:40 am
by Miesgjah
Yeah!

Still want to go to one of his workshops but I never have the time when he's doing one. I have a friend who has an homeswinger, which sounds really awesome. Like all of his instruments.

Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:45 am
by Toonster
Miesgjah wrote:Yeah!

Still want to go to one of his workshops but I never have the time when he's doing one. I have a friend who has an homeswinger, which sounds really awesome. Like all of his instruments.

Yeah, the homeswinger is cool too, I have one too

Very nice bell-like sounds and some sounds comparable to the white eagle.. The drumguitar is also very cool but might not be everybodies cup of tea, because it is way more experimental sounding..
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:47 am
by Dexterecus
I just mailed him, he put me on the list for the White Eagle workshop in belgium. Fuck yeah!
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:17 pm
by metalmariachi
Very cool. Sounds like you had a great time and learned stuff too.
I wish he would do a work shop here in DC.
MM
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 2:14 pm
by jrmy
metalmariachi wrote:Very cool. Sounds like you had a great time and learned stuff too.
I wish he would do a work shop here in DC.
MM
I had a nice chat with him on Facebook, and he said something about a possible Fall tour of the US this year. He said he'd look into a Providence stop, so I'm sure he'd consider DC - you should send him an e-mail. If you can give him suggestions about places to do these, he seems pretty willing to do the legwork.
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 8:15 pm
by masked elwood
Toonster wrote:I had a workshop yesterday where we built a guitar.. A very awesome one

It's called White Eagle Tailed Bridge Guitar.
And this is it:

It looks really punk right?
yes it does !!!!
very very kool that you got to do this.....i'd piss myself having so much fun.
awesome instrument!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 10:20 am
by Toonster
masked elwood wrote:very very kool that you got to do this.....i'd piss myself having so much fun.
awesome instrument!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had to change pants several times

Dexterecus wrote:I just mailed him, he put me on the list for the White Eagle workshop in belgium. Fuck yeah!
Congratulations on that.. In a few weeks I think you will see a few others of these coming by on ILF, phantasmagorovich is also going to a workshop in a few weeks!
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Sun May 01, 2011 10:05 pm
by kosta
I met Phantasmagorovitch in Amsterdam and we built these too! So much fun! They sound amazing!!!!
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:14 am
by univalve
kosta wrote:I met Phantasmagorovitch in Amsterdam and we built these too! So much fun!
there is awesome content in this sentence!

Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 11:08 am
by kosta
Uni you've got to go to the workshop in Ghent in September! Workshop participants get to play their White Eagles with Rhys Chatham in a performance of Guitar Trio the 2nd night!!!! Plus - the White Eagle is awesome!
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 3:22 am
by Dexterecus
That's the one I'm going to!
Re: My new guitar day! Yuri Landman's White Eagle
Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 3:54 am
by univalve
Uh, thanks for the tip! Sounds good. Probably i will go there... How do you register for this? (Any link appreciated)