If the six strings on your plain ol’ guitar just doesn’t cut it anymore, then Yuri Landman has the solution: a twelve-string instrument called the Home Swinger, capable of complex tones that your run-of-the-mill acoustic may not achieve.
Landman, from the Netherlands, created the Home Swinger instrument, a spinoff of a previous instrument of his called [...]
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Home Swinger, A New Kind of Sound
Shoe Shine With Attitude
All right. I am going to keep this one short and quite simple. On the corner of 47th street and 6th Avenue in New York, I came across this charming New Yorker who makes a living persuading passersby into getting a shoe shine.
Pearl The Mime
Zipping through New York’s underground maze on a Wednesday evening to catch the number 3 train, I came across a street performer called Pearl the Mime.
She stood out in her red costume – large, voluminous skirt, a tinkling scarf at her waist, an off-white wig topped with a funny red hat, and pretty white [...]