I'm on FaceBook! Here you'll find more pics and info on someof the instruments I make plus lots of detailed photos on the actual construction of some of them.
Also YouTube videos of some really unique
(and really Strange!) musical instruments from around the world.
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Instruments
currently available: ---------------------------
Ukelin
(Bowed Zither)
Click on the blue link up above in the Other Stuff:
section.
---------------------- Octave Mandolin # 67
is still available.
Check them out in the Mandolins section. (Click on Octave A-4 Mandolins)
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Bowed Psaltery
(with case and bow)
Click on the Other Stuff section
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Silvertone Jumbo Guitar.
Click on the Other Stuff
section above for more details on the Silvertone. ----------------------------
Welcome to TeeJays Home Page and
Web Site. I make stringed Musical Instruments and conduct field surveys for
Reptiles and Amphibians
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Updated:
Tuesday - May 21 -
2013
______________________________________ Hello from the
banks of the WatonwanRiver at Madelia,
Minn.
(The "Pride of the Prairie") ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A note about calling here and leaving a phone message:
It usually doesn't work! Sorry... but using a cell phone with a
bad connection makes it impossible to hear your return number.
Please use my E-mail address instead. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Items currently
available:
Check on the left to see what I've got, then click on the appropriate link
above for more pics and info. ___________________________________________ Here's a quick up-date on the latest:
I am currently back into
Turtle Time again full-time. I'll be busy with that until July when I'll get back to completeing Nyckelharpa # 6. _______________________________________
Mandolin # 72 is done!
Pics and details are up in the Mandolins section up above.
I started building this one last Fall as a special order, but the
customer ran into financial difficulty and had to abandon the project.
It was originally going to be a replica of a 1921 Gibson, but the only
thing now resembling an old Gibson is the width of the neck at the nut.
It's a standard A-style Mando with my own special X brace design, and I went back to using Merlot stain again.
All Maple with a Redwood top and
Ebony fret board and bridge.
Price tag (with case) will be about $1850.
_______________________________________ The 'Chocolate Mandolin' is done!
Regular size A-style Mandolin. Back, sides and neck made of rare curly Black Walnut.
Top is Redwood with Ebony fret board.
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Photos and details are up in the
Mandolins section.
Here's a quick video/sound sample of it:
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Octave Mandolin # 69
Sold!
Thanks to Brad in Anaheim, Ca.
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Nyckelharpa # 5 is
done but not ready to go just yet. Since I sold Octave Mando # 69 I've
been able to keep the Harpa, so I've gone back to the original plan of
hanging on to it until # 6 is done.
The price tag is up now though. Hang in there. Eventually I will have to part with it. _______________________________________ Here's Nyckelharpa # 5. Photos are up in the Violins and Fiddles section.
Check out the photos and video of # 4 in the Violins and Fiddles
section. ___________________________________
This is a direct link to all my videos on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/TeeJay5085 ________________________________________ As of right now it looks like I'll be concentrating on making A-Style Octave Mandolins and Nyckelharpas. ________________________________________________________
OK...That's it for now.
Keep checking in.
I started making musical
instruments in the late 1970’s.
My first attempt was a 5-String Banjo made out of a pine board I found in the
garage... Read More... ________________________________________ Check out the other
Nyckelharpas I've made.
Actually
its a "FiddleHarpa".
A Nyckelharpa built to the size and tunings of a Violin.
(Look in the Violins
and Fiddles section above)
E-mail TeeJay@cccinternet.net Sorry...Had to delete the phone number. I usually run and hide whenever I hear the phone ring anyway. 9
times out of 10 its not for me and I'm really bad about getting
back to you if you leave a message. You'll have a much better chance if
you use E-mail. Thanks!
