A $100 Guitar Makes A 30,000-Mile Odyssey and proves once again that it's not just the instrument, it's what you do with it.
A few months ago, guitarist Nick Didkovsky arrived at a recording studio in Queens, N.Y., with a delivery. It looked like an average electric guitar. But over the past two years, the instrument had been all over the world on a 30,000-mile odyssey that's taken it from Germany to Hawaii, and about a dozen other countries and states in between.
More than 60 guitarists have used it to write and record new pieces, and signed their names somewhere on the body. The list includes some serious heavyweights, like Nels Cline of the band Wilco, prepared guitar pioneer Fred Frith and downtown New York composer Elliott Sharp.
"We have people who've made the guitar sound like anything but a guitar, and other people have focused on making it sound like a guitar," says Chuck O'Meara, one of the guitar's co-owners. "The range of sounds people have pulled out of this instrument is really quite surprising."
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