Artist and musician Ken Butler makes hybrid musical instrument sculptures out of boots, weapons, tools, furniture. He has even staged performances where he played his eccentric instruments: Link | String Hybrid Instrument Gallery – via Jaf Project
hark
the thing that makes it more than a cute gimmick is he’s actually interesting to listen to play. what he can do with a blowing on a strip of dental rubber is quite masterful.
Pudifoot
I have seen several shoe-horns, but that is the first boot-guitar i have seen.
the man
I second Ken Butler’s Performance Skillz.
I’ve seen him twice on either coast and he is great.
When i saw him he was self-looping his music with a lexicon jam man, doing his own accompaniment. Plus when he plays that dental dam he sounds like Dizzy Gillespie . Not like just a trumpet but like Diz.
Check out his you tubes
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Ken+Butler&search_type=
Learn and Master Guitar
I hope that I see this in reality because their design is unique and strange, but all in all they are truly works of art.
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