Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Ken Butler’s Hybrid Instruments”.
Guys over here this is a uh i’ve seen crowds around this guy all day, he’s got handmade instruments made out of found objects and very cool stuff. Hey there can i talk to you for a minute. Live yeah, that’d, be great! I’M sorry! We caught you by surprise so yeah. Why don’t you kind of zoom in on the instruments for a second and we’ll come back to them in just a sec, you ready all right hold on just a minute, all right, uh, so uh hi.
Let me just ask you to introduce yourself, tell us a little bit about your uh, your what you make here and then you can give us a little demonstration. If that’s okay, yes, i’m ken butler and i’m a i’m, i’m a kind of an artist and musician. I have some a collection here of my hybrid musical instruments. I’Ve been making these since 1978. I have about 400 of them, and so i brought a little selection today for maker faire, it’s my first time at maker faire, and so it’s kind of a mixture of art and music, not really meant to be like a real luthier, but a lot.
But everything here is playable, but it’s made from found objects and assembly, so it kind of has a repurposed recycling aspect and a little bit of a practicality in terms of finding things that exist. That can be transformed relatively easy easily into functional stringed instruments great well. I’M glad to see you out here for your first time at maker faire, can you uh play us a little something yeah sure uh, okay, i’ll play i’ll play a little on the i’ll play two of them quickly, i’ll play a little bit because everybody likes the Golf club golf club has one string i’ll play a little on the golf club, all right, great um – oh, oh, ah, oh ah, wow big hand, all right artist, maker and musician ken butler. Thank you so much for one more amazing thing.
I hate to do that. To you not my invention, stan wood portland oregon. Thank you stan it’s a piece of a latex dental dam, just a latex square that you cut with a paper cutter and uh stan wood. Thank you stan check this out. Uh. That’S amazing! Wow! Thank you! So much ken that was great pleasure.
My pleasure thanks a lot have a great day thanks a lot. I appreciate it take care all right that was really great. Let’S come on through this way a little impromptu performance there for us, .
