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About this episode

Luthiers Rich Mermer, Benoit Meulle-Stef, William Eaton, Eddie Vila, Stephen Sedgwick and Mike Doolin discuss the unique designs, building techniques, built-in amplification methods and hardware used to create their custom instruments.? Examples of their work are presented. Designs range from Dyer/Knutsen style by?Eddie Vila, new designs by Benoit Meulle-Stef, Stephen Sedgwick, and Mike Doolin for hollow-bodied instrumenta built to?support the extra bass and treble strings, to William Eaton's electric, dual-armed, 20 string, computerized, self-tuning harp guitar, complete with LED screen on the upper edge. ?A harp guitar for every style of player!

• Release Date

  Oct 15, 2006

• Runtime

  01:13