Elaine and Ben and I spent the afternoon yesterday at Elderly Instruments in Lansing, Michigan. Housed in a former Odd Fellows building, Elderly is quite a store.
[Photograph by Elaine Fine.]
Downstairs, next to the repair desk, there is a curious exhibit titled “Tone Balls,” a collection of the little bundles of dust, hair, lint, and whatever that form inside guitars. The term tone ball is the work of an unidentified Elderly employee. Here, from Fretboard Journal, is a 2006 article about tone balls, with scary-big photographs. (No longer available online.)
Elaine has already written about these things, and she snagged a screenshot of the page from Fretboard Journal piece.
[Gasoline to Lansing and back: about $30. Getting your son an instrument: priceless.]
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Tone balls
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