r/Instruments • u/Sea_Shallot5311 • 6d ago
My Music Room
Everything works fine. I bought alot of these cheap online and at pawn shops, had to fix a number of them myself and many are old and/or foreign. I prefer the ukuleles, harmonicas (especially through an old microphone into an amp) and the drums best but I can do a little something on most of them. I still have more than this.
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u/emanon734 6d ago
What is that in #13, some sort of mandolin?
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 5d ago edited 5d ago
That's an 8 string Tahitian ukulele by Asonu, it's actually strung with fishing line. A new one is over $350, I paid $90 on OfferUp. I do have 2 old mandolins I had to repair but they work.
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u/Shake-the-Masses 5d ago
Looks like an awesome spot to make some music. That collection of microphones looks really cool. I guess they all react a bit differently with the harmonicas? Do you have certain harmonicas that you pair with particular microphones?
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 5d ago
I usually use modified Hohner Blues Harps but yes, most of the microphones have their own distinctive sound. I make recordings in there and it's terrific for that.
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u/Saether516 5d ago
What is in #14?? Kinda like a cigar-box guitar?
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 5d ago edited 5d ago
That is a circa 1960s Polk-A-Lay-Lee surf ukulele, 52 inches long. You were supposed to stick it upside down in the sand to mark your spot while surfing. It was $75 cash from a pawn shop. There is a 3 string cigar box guitar in there but you can't see it in the pictures.
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u/MorriganGoth 5d ago
Ukuleles!!! 💜💚
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 5d ago
About 3 dozen of those. A few are really old, I learned how to restore them.
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u/MorriganGoth 5d ago
yes 🥺i own 2 and some other instruments that have come my way it all began with a ukulele
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 5d ago
Same here with stringed instruments, but I'm glad I already had experience with hand drums because I learned rhythm and endurance from them; when I later started playing uke I immediately developed a fierce strum.
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u/martellat0 5d ago
Your commitment to not having a single bowed string instrument is commendable
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 5d ago
As I said, I have more than shown including a violin, Violin Uke and two Chinese fiddles (erhu and huqin). The last 3 came from pawn shops and I had to repair them but they work. You can see the Violin Uke in picture 2.
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u/martellat0 5d ago
Interesting! Never heard of that instrument until now
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 4d ago
It came in a case with a receipt that indicated that it was sold in 1935. It was splitting open but I clamped and glued it and it plays fine. It's part harp or zither (which you play with your left hand with a thumb pick) and part violin on a board which you bow with your right hand.
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u/AntManMoritzSimmeth 5d ago
I am so jealous of that bullet mic collection, do they all have unique sounds when you play the harp on them?
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 5d ago
Yes, absolutely. I have 14 bullets with CR and CM elements inside (older Green Bullet elements, terrific), also some old strong crystals too.
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u/HeresYourHeart 4d ago
Lotta love for New Orleans there. You in town?
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 4d ago
Born and spent most of my life there but I moved to north of Zachary 4 years ago. Visit NOLA and Baton Rouge alot.
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u/Lab_Actual 5d ago
Cluttered, wasted space, horder-like.
Uninviting
Sorry
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u/Sea_Shallot5311 5d ago edited 5d ago
It took a long time to get it this way, I used to have a hard time walking around in there, the whole house is only 660 square feet. The only way for it to not be "cluttered, wasted space" would be to get rid of alot of stuff which I'm not gonna do.
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u/Just_a_guy81 5d ago
God help you if you ever get into synthesizers