 kytka kalimbaKalimba built on a small speaker which amplyfies the instrument. The speaker, fan blade and can are held in place by the magnet in the speaker. |  Pastenetar |  Olive oil can guitar. A brand traditionally used by my maternal Neapolitan
grandmother. |
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 CankoraHarp built from a watering can with a kora style bridge. |  Cankora |  Bottle-cap violin |
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 Tuliphone/Kettle-harpRight-Tuliphone sound sculpture
Left- Harp constructed from tea kettle. |  |  Ektar figure |
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 Garden rake harp |  Eliptical style ektar |  Hoe and Spade ViolsTwo viol style instruments created from a czech style hoe and spade during the Growthring symposium in Plasy, CZ. |
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 Spade-Viol detail |  KotoKoto styled instrument with wooden fragments from the carving of the instrument utilized as bridges. Plasy, CZ |  Bottle-zitherPart of the Plasy group of instruments created during the Growthrings symposium, summer 1993 |
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 CoaltoInstrument with coal bricks as bridges.
Plasy, CZ.
1993 |  Pallet-Pots-Pans zitherHnizda Her-Nest of Games exhibition
Rudofinum Gallery
Prague, CZ. 2000 |  Struck and plucked installationInstallation view of exhibition in Galerie Behemot, Prague, CZ.
1996 |
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 PangongSteel drum lid gong 1989 |  KotopanKotopan 1990 NYC
Steel drum with 12 strings and movable wooden bridges. |  santoorpan 19922 octave tuning in aeolian mode |
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 Plasy santoorpan 1993Built from a wooden box used in asphalt road repair with a sheet metal top and wooden bridge guitar strings. |  Santoorpan 1996Santoopan built with curved bridges allowing for bowing of the strings. |  Santoorpan 1996 |
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 Santoopan 19933 Octave range with 3 strings per note in Aeolian mode. |  Usuku InstrumentsInstruments used during a recording project while in residence at the Hermit foundation, Plasy Monastery, CZ. |  monochordcycle 2002One chair, one wheel, one string bridged by pot, forks and spoon. |
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 |  Monodchordcycle 1996Built on site for exhibition in Galerie Kastrich Mainz.1996 |  Monochordcycle 1992First monochordcycle created during a residency at Stichting Steim, summer 1992 |
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 Bubec Garden Earth BowEarth bow created in the Bubec Sculpture Garden
during artist in residence, june 2016 |  |  KellerklavierFestival Mut zur Luecke / Courage to unveil the deficiencies
Falkenstein, Austria, 2008
Grapevine, strings, wire, wine bottle |
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 Plungerhorn |  Singing Lamps |  |
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 |  Blow In My Ear Babywind instrument created for the exhibition Hermes Ucho, Nitra, Slovakia 2005 |  |
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Home-made Sculptural Bricolage Musical Instruments
1990-2016
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