Buy Your Very Own Sister Spinster
Just got an exciting email from Thomas Truax, who is a genius musician, performer and inventor of home-made instruments. Follow the links at the bottom to find out more,
If only I had any money at all, I'd be bidding enthusiastically. But if there's any sense or justice in the world I'm guessing they'll be going for a high price. What a brilliant idea, I hope it earns him some serious money!
I'm just going to paste the original message from Mr Truax in wholesale, as I ain't well enough for editing:
"Hi!
After a lot of interest has been expressed over the years some of you
will be happy to know I've finished the first of a VERY limited number
of MINI SISTER SPINSTERS.
Each of the Mini Spinsters is to be individually built by yours truly
from a mix of found, one-of-a-kind plastic and metal parts I've been
collecting over the years as well as more commonly available hardware
and special bits, so though there will be a family similarity, they'll
all have a unique personality. I'm looking at them as a small series of
art pieces. Could be a coffee table curiosity or an exciting mantelpiece
decoration, or perhaps something to play your ukulele to.
The prototype of these I made this past summer as a wedding gift for my
dear friends Paul Stone (of the band The Chemistry Experiment) and his
lovely wife Sara. (Flatteringly, they claimed it was 'the best present
ever').
This first of the few I'll be offering for sale is called Wild Jane. She
stands about 6" tall and plays a mean galloping rhythm. She also lights
up. There's a quicktime movie of her playing at my website (link at the
bottom of this email). No need to feed or water her (though you might
have to replace the batteries at some point).
Each machine is/will be unique in some way; one of a kind, signed and
numbered. As they are individually crafted by hand, they will probably
have some evidence of the 'human touch'. Each will be motorized and
play a single simple, but unique rhythm, similar to those featured in
those of my own songs that feature my mechanical drummer Sister
Spinster.
I'm offering the first of these for auction on Ebay. Again, this is not
mass production. As they are quite time consuming to build, I will only
make a few of them, and not all of them will be for sale. I'm going to
make a recording of each one before they leave home, so there's a chance
that those recordings may eventually show up somewhere on one of my
future albums.
To see a small quicktime movie of Wild Jane in action go to:
http://www.thomastruax.com/Images/Mini%20Spinster%20pictures/mini-spinster-1(240).mov
or
http://www.thomastruax.com/mini-spinsters.html
to bid for a chance to make Wild Jane yours go to
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190183408073
or search for Truax Mini Spinster"
If only I had any money at all, I'd be bidding enthusiastically. But if there's any sense or justice in the world I'm guessing they'll be going for a high price. What a brilliant idea, I hope it earns him some serious money!
I'm just going to paste the original message from Mr Truax in wholesale, as I ain't well enough for editing:
"Hi!
After a lot of interest has been expressed over the years some of you
will be happy to know I've finished the first of a VERY limited number
of MINI SISTER SPINSTERS.
Each of the Mini Spinsters is to be individually built by yours truly
from a mix of found, one-of-a-kind plastic and metal parts I've been
collecting over the years as well as more commonly available hardware
and special bits, so though there will be a family similarity, they'll
all have a unique personality. I'm looking at them as a small series of
art pieces. Could be a coffee table curiosity or an exciting mantelpiece
decoration, or perhaps something to play your ukulele to.
The prototype of these I made this past summer as a wedding gift for my
dear friends Paul Stone (of the band The Chemistry Experiment) and his
lovely wife Sara. (Flatteringly, they claimed it was 'the best present
ever').
This first of the few I'll be offering for sale is called Wild Jane. She
stands about 6" tall and plays a mean galloping rhythm. She also lights
up. There's a quicktime movie of her playing at my website (link at the
bottom of this email). No need to feed or water her (though you might
have to replace the batteries at some point).
Each machine is/will be unique in some way; one of a kind, signed and
numbered. As they are individually crafted by hand, they will probably
have some evidence of the 'human touch'. Each will be motorized and
play a single simple, but unique rhythm, similar to those featured in
those of my own songs that feature my mechanical drummer Sister
Spinster.
I'm offering the first of these for auction on Ebay. Again, this is not
mass production. As they are quite time consuming to build, I will only
make a few of them, and not all of them will be for sale. I'm going to
make a recording of each one before they leave home, so there's a chance
that those recordings may eventually show up somewhere on one of my
future albums.
To see a small quicktime movie of Wild Jane in action go to:
http://www.thomastruax.com/Images/Mini%20Spinster%20pictures/mini-spinster-1(240).mov
or
http://www.thomastruax.com/mini-spinsters.html
to bid for a chance to make Wild Jane yours go to
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190183408073
or search for Truax Mini Spinster"
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