Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Handmade Musical Instruments: Xylocopa Design”.
Yeah, it’s kind of hard. I make musical instruments uh, for instance, i made this fiddle. I wanted a five string fiddle, so i made one i put a chicken on it. I played the violin in the viola. I used to be an orchestral player and i like fixing them so i just started – buying broken violins and cooling with them and seeing how that affected.
The tone and i’ve worked on many violins now and then i started making my own. I was always an artist. We didn’t have a television, my mother was an artist. She worked as a patent illustrator, so we always had these inventions in the house that she was illustrating for the patent attorneys that were top secret. We weren’t allowed to let anybody see them or tell them what they were, but i would have to model these things.
You know like handbrakes for rollerblades or a lightning repelling hat or whatever. We had all this stuff and she was illustrating it and on her free time she was a painter and she sell her paintings and local galleries, and so i always just did what she did. So i thought i would be an artist before i decided.
I was going to be a scientist now, i’m both you .