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3 unusual facts about Experimental luthier


Experimental luthier

In 2006 Yuri Landman built his Moodswinger for the band Liars and afterwards made a large serie of alternate string instruments like the Moonlander for Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, the Springtime for Blood Red Shoes and the Tafelberg drum guitar for The Dodos and others.

Its name is ostensibly derived from its likeness in appearance to the cubist works of Pablo Picasso.

Micachu made a few string instruments of which one is called the 'Chu'.



see also

The Luyas

Singer/guitarist Jessie Stein expands the band’s musical vocabulary when she plays the Moodswinger, a 12-string electric zither designed by the Dutch experimental luthier Yuri Landman.