I visited The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC on Saturday, the "largest art museum in the Americas." The musical instrument collection is always inspiring. I took many photos.

Pictured here: A Trumpet Call Harmonica, Les Paul prototype recording model serial no. 001, a 1780 coiled brass hunting horn, and a Gravikord.

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/musical-instruments

#museum #MusicalInstruments #VintageGuitars #TheMet #Photography #Musodon #Recording #NYC

"NONSENSE" (Demo)
by David Guilbault
January 7, 2023

First song of 2023. This is a demo, written on a vintage Kay acoustic guitar. Recorded into an iPhone 11. Mastered online with eMastered.

https://davidguilbault.bandcamp.com/track/nonsense-demo

#originalmusic #newmusic #folkmusic #altfolk #americana #acousticmusic #kayacousticguitar #vintagekayguitar #vintageguitars #singersongwriter #performingsongwriter

#Guitar a day. 66 #Guild #Starfire. I bought this in the mid-90s for $200. It was cheap because the kid who owned it had “refinished” it using a brush and one of those varnish/stain combos. It looked like someone had globbed melted chocolate all over it. I took it to #RyanGadow, who did a great job of resurrecting it. The #humbuckers are from an early 70s #LesPaul. Replaced the broken #Bigsby tailpiece with the harp one you see in the photo.

#mastomusic #VintageGuitars

#Guitar a day. 66 #Guild #Starfire. I bought this in the mid-90s for $200. It was cheap because the kid who owned it had “refinished” it using a brush and one of those varnish/stain combos. It looked like someone had globbed melted chocolate all over it. I took it to #RyanGadow, who did a great job of resurrecting it. The #humbuckers are from an early 70s #LesPaul. Replaced the broken #Bigsby tailpiece with the harp one you see in the photo.

#mastomusic #VintageGuitars

Time for another guitar pic

This is my Yamaha SF-500

I bought this on Ebay, but it arrived with a crack in the headstock below the high E tuner

The seller claimed insurance, returned the money and said just keep the guitar

After a bit of research, I decided to fix it myself

That was the beginning of my amateur luthier career

#guitars
#VintageGuitars

In June 2020, my NLJ colleague Victor V. Gurbo reviewed three sets of vintage guitar strings that he applied to three guitars from his collection.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/reviewing-three-boutique-guitar-strings/

#guitars #vintageguitars #music #newleafjournal