My Musical Instruments
Shlomo, in his role as
The Music Man,
surrounded by
various instruments from his personal collection.
Children's Museum of the Arts, New
York City, 1993.
(Photo by Tom Kenny)
Please note that this is not a commercial site or a webstore. The purposes of this site are purely informational and educational. The hyperlinks below are to articles I've written about the history and organology of the various different kinds of musical instruments I play and research.
While I'll be glad to correspond with you on these topics, please don't email me to ask about the value of a specific musical instrument. I am not an instrument dealer or appraiser.
Please direct any inquiry of that nature to my friends and associates at New York String Service, a very reputable company that has been dealing in and appraising antique and vintage musical instruments since 1983. They have two websites: Musurgia, NYSS's "old curiosity shop" on the Information Highway offering a great selection of "fine, rare, and peculiar" musical instruments and collectibles; and Retrofret, which is devoted to vintage and unique guitars, banjos, mandolins, ukuleles and other types of fretted string instruments.
For inquiries regarding accordions and concertinas of all kinds, please contact my good buddies at The Button Box (Sunderland, MA).
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy your visit!
-- Shlomo Pestcoe
STRINGS
Fiddle, Guitar, Mandolin, Octave Mandolin, 5-String Banjo (Fretted & Fretless), Tenor Banjo, Banjo Hybrids (Banjo-Guitar, Banjo-Mandolin & Banjo-Ukulele), Ukulele, Baritone Ukulele, Puetro Rican Cuatro, Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer, Hammer Dulcimer
FREE REEDS
Diatonic Button Accordion (1, 2, & 3 Rows), English & Anglo-German Concertinas, Harmonica
PERCUSSION
Darabukka/Dumbec (Near/Middle Eastern Hand Drum), Donno (West African "Talking Drum"), Tee Fer (Louisiana Cajun/Black Creole Style Triangle), Bones, Spoons, Washboard, Limber Jack (Dancing Puppet)
OTHER
Quills (African American Panpipes), Jaw Harp, Mouth Bow, Jug, Kazoo
