Chris Tsonias
Musical Instruments from newspapers and blue jeans manufactured
Musical Instruments from newspapers and blue jeans manufactured by Komotinaios Chris Tsonia
Δευτέρα, 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2010 Monday, December 13, 2010
Towards creation of the orchestra and claims Guinness record!
That's a keeper at the Music High School of Komotini is the only element that connects the area of the pentagram. But this did not prevent, arrest and implement an innovative idea: to build for the first time in the world, violins paper and fabric!
"At first it seemed to me funny and said that it will succeed," admits the school music teacher and award-winning composer Dimitri Svyntridis, admitting however that the final result is very good. "
A graduate of the Music High School of Komotini, and freshman law student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Gkiokchan Selim, is the first violinist who played the original instruments, and as noted, "not far from the normally wooden.
Collector antiques Chris Tsonia and passionate rektis explains the history ... of his undertaking: "Working as a guard at the Music High School, was inspired by the environment, sounds, instruments, and decided to grapple first with the repair of old violin collection of objects that have antique.
Somewhere I got the idea to fix a violin there, so I started with the construction of a violin from a newspaper, and then built the second, from blue jeans.
The construction of each violin takes about forty days, he says, although it has achieved its primary goal, however, essentially still experimenting: "I do not know how to behave in materials. I have applied many techniques, many violins before the final result reached today in the bin, yet I actually tested.
The only "gap" until the moment of the violin is the fact that it can produce sound. But according to Svyntridi D. and S. Giokchan, "This is a particular obstacle, it can sound and be reinforced by similar improvements in manufacturing, but also supported by capsules or microphones. D. Svyntridis, indeed, believes that "these instruments improved, can be used in musical productions and open new avenues in music."
Coming up Ch Tsonia intends to use and recycled aluminum, and build guitars, oud, woodwinds and percussion, to the encouragement of friends to create a musical band that plays with instruments made from green, recycled materials, which can even lead to claim a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
Already in fact, is the first guitar orders. One D. Svyntridi, and one a Briton, a special art critic. At the same time, has come into contact with an Italian violinist, composer and music producer.
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