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This guy is pretty clever though. Making "musical instruments" out of odds and ends. bric-à-brac = odds and ends, bric-à-couac = collection of bad notes
The first version of my 10 string kantele playing guide on youtube has me playing my own modern electric Kantele, not very different from the (from 3.06 in a
... Now I want to put a pickup on my lyre and see what happens when I run it through various effects... I'm not fond of the plain sound of that one though.