Bachido Blogcast E102

Blog Blogcast
#1

It’s a special day here at Bachido! We are honored with a delightful visit from CAD extraordinaire Brian Chan, inventor of the Folding Ukulele (http://www.ponoko.com/showroom/chosetec), designer of ShamiSpoons (http://bit.ly/1DBXB55) and much more! In today’s interview, Brian tells us how he got started, and shows us a few of his incredible works of art - The Foldable Shamisen and Foldable Er-Hu!

But that’s not all! Afterwards, I travel to Brian’s kingdom in Boston, where he unveils his new collapsible itomaki, a wood/aluminum shamisen koma, and his full size CNC-cut tsugaru shamisen!

Afterwards, we head into the shop where Brian uses a CNC machine to cut out parts of a full size sao for tsugaru shamisen. Whoa nellie!! All of it was a very eye-opening experience.

#2

Really cool! You changed shamisen when trying out the aluminium koma so it was hard to get a sense of the difference in sound. Care to explain how it was?

#3

wow what an enjoyable to watch blogcast not to mention its contents . . . especially funny I found the foldable erhu as in jaw droppingly efficiently designed :slight_smile:

#4

and something about the sound of that aluminium koma made me imagine it could be a perfect basis for a distortion effects pedal / amp for a real heavy sounding result :slight_smile:

#5

Absolutely stunning! Amazing fold out instruments!

#6

Fascinating!

I just traveled with my shamisen last week. I had the smaller travel case but it was one of my two carry-on bags. To be able to fold it up and put it in my backpack would have been cool! However, I do wonder about the skin once it is folded up. Would you then put the folded shamisen into a fukuro of some kind?

#7

Indeed. Putting it in a fukuro, or at least wrapping it in a towel would be safe. :slight_smile:

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