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The Union Matches July last year: My eyes keep me in trouble (David Wilcox)

The Union Matches in Leuven 25-05-2024 T-bone Steak Boogie (2 fragmenten)

A lot can be learned from paintings about damaged string instruments and about the degree of realism of the image. Anyone familiar with the restoration and conservation of musical instruments can tell at a glance whether the artist knew what defects on an instrument really look like.

Violin makers in various places in Europe supplied the local markets with archaic instruments even before Cremonese makers introduced their lute-construction based novelties.

Based on extant old violin bridges and around 800 iconographic sources, the origin of the various elements of bridges found on modern instruments of the violin family can be revealed, and the different stages of their evolution can be reconstructed.

How did the violin f-hole arise, where did it get its shape, and why didn't the bridges stand between the notches initially?

A video on Dutch violins in 17th century paintings, pictured from several different angles. Studying them enabled me to reconstruct specific instruments lost in time: archaic violins from the Low Countries.

poor black maddie

Klezmer blues

Uit het afscheidsconcert van The Union Matches eerste formatie: Death came a knockin' (21-07-2023)

Stella electric spanish guitar 1935

black supertone parlor guitar by harmony, c. 1930

just a tune on the tenor banjo

The last concert of this Gritty bluesband with Fanne Stevens (bass) and Rob Mcleod (drums) in "De Natuurpunthoeve" Wijgmaal. The band will restart in November with a new rythm section consisting of Johann Wuestenberg (bass) and Chris Warpy (drums). Thanks to Gert from The Basement for the clip.

The Union Matches full concert 20 01 2023

The Union Matches in concert 20-01-2023 in Het Groot ongelijk: in my time of dying

The Union Matches: introducing the band

The Union Matches Gig Libertad 8-1-2023: “Brownsville" (2 fragments)

The Union Matches Gig Libertad 8-1-2023: “Restless"

The Union Matches Gig Libertad 8-1-2023: "Bright lights"

The Union Matches Gig Libertad 8-1-2023: "Shake em all down"

cry in vain

The Union Matches, try out 22-10-2022: "Early morning blues".

penny and the whales demo

arirang ready

National N710

value leader bas

The story of the 351 and other guitar picks.

Jimmy Page on loaning instruments to Metropolitan Museum exhibit including guitar on which he wrote0