My Acustic Guitar

 

This guitar was a gift to me from my son Gray before he went off the be a Monk!

I am even taking lessons!

Between this, and my electric guitar I should be rocking in no time!

--Rock-n-Roll!

My Custom Guitar

 

This guitar was hand made by my friend Mike.

It is amazing and I am trying to learn how to play it. 

I am actually considering lessons because Youtube is not cutting it for this old dog that is trying to learn new tricks.

I also have a nice acoustic guitar my son gave to me. Playing that is more likely to keep me safe from my wife murdering me...

--Oh yeah!

The Cold Mountain Violin

This Relic was a movie prop used in the movie Cold Mountain.

If you watch the violin scene closely you can see that the violin has a unique cobra carved into the head of the violin.

I have the whole thing. The case, the fiddle, the bow, resin and a damn good story.

--I love movie props!

The Zither

This Relic is called a Zither. It belongs to Brenda and is actually a beautiful, unsusal instrument.

From Wikipedia:

"The zither is a musical string instrument, most commonly found in Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, northwestern Croatia, the southern regions of Germany, alpine Europe and East Asian cultures, including China. The term "citre" is also used more broadly, to describe the entire family of stringed instruments in which the strings do not extend beyond the sounding box, including the hammered dulcimer, psaltery, Appalachian dulcimer, guqin, guzheng (Chinese zither), koto, gusli, kantele, gayageum, đàn tranh, kanun, autoharp, santoor, yangqin, piano, harpsichord, santur, swarmandal, and others. Modern electric zithers exist, as well as a wide variation of experimental zithers like the Kitaras of Harry Partch, the Shruti Stick and the Moodswinger. It is played by strumming or plucking the strings like a guitar."


--I have multiple instruments in the Relic room.