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Jenny Biddle’s First AUSTRALIAN Award!
Posted on 09 February 2012.
Jenny Biddle wins the People’s Choice Award at the 2012 Tamworth Country Music Festival! Performing for nine days straight, alongside over 500 other street performers, Jenny Biddle won the hearts of Tamworth Country Music Festival attenders this January, taking out the People’s Choice Award in the 2012 Australian Country Music Festival Busking Championships. Congratulations Jenny, and [...]
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Day 12: Joining the sides of the guitar together
Posted on 08 February 2012.
DAY 12 – 8/2/2012 10-4pm. I am SO stoked! The two side pieces are now bent into the shape of my guitar. I left them clamped into frames over two days, and released them from the frames today. VOILÁ! The sides held their newly bent shape. They look amazing.
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Day 11: To BREAK or not to BREAK!
Posted on 06 February 2012.
DAY 11 –6/2/2012 11-2:30pm. I was a little reluctant for the first day back at the workshop for the New Year, as I knew this session would involve remaking the sides of the guitar from scratch after I broke the cutaway on my first attempt at hand bending. My new sassafras pieces had arrived and [...]
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House Concert – February 12 – Doncaster (VIC)
Posted on 11 January 2012.
There’s nothing more intimate about a house concert. And YOU are invited!
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Day 7: Creating the soundboard bracing
Posted on 08 December 2011.
DAY 7 – 8/12/2011 10:30-4:30pm. Creating bracing for the soundboard: Today was all about creating the bracing for the soundboard. This is a detailed process, and there’s a set formula/layout to follow. Altering this formula will have a profound effect on the distribution of the sound across the soundboard, thus altering the sound/tone. It would [...]
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