I have this really nice wood shop. I've built just about all the furniture our small suburban ranch house can handle and I'm honestly kinda burnt out on furniture. I've now built three guitars that I play on a regular basis, and may have another guitar in my future. I still haven't tried an acoustic guitar, but having never been much of player of acoustic guitars (I have to clean the dust off of the one I have every time I take it down from the rack), I'd kinda like to build something that I will actually play, or learn to play.
There are all kinds of exotic stringed instruments made of wood. I was looking at a koto the other day which looks pretty cool, but seems to be pretty specialized and requires re-tuning for different compositions. They're also rather large, and I'm not sure I could squeeze one into my music room along with the drums, keyboard, guitars, amps etc. Also, I'd really rather build something on which I could play western music. Nothing against Asian music, but I only have so many years left, and I still have so much to learn about western music
I should say though that some kind of hand-drum isn't out of the question, and musicians from the Middle East & southern Asia are amazing percussionists. But other then the coopering required, drums don't seem to be too much of a challenge.Anyway, I thought some on this forum might have some suggestions as to musical instruments for me to look at as a possible options to tackle.
Thanks!
so maybe that's an option.
