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Comment by Stu Crane AKA aboynamedstu on August 4, 2020 at 8:46am: Thanks all. Hope you've enjoyed the coronavirus rants. Will be recording them with a few of the others that were involved in The Mustard Seed Studios Open Mic at Mustard Seed but only like Dom the owner/producer/engineer and 1 other in the studio at a time over the next couple of weeks so hope to add more fleshed out versions at some point.

The guitar is a Tin-Tone Sonic Resonator built by Jon Free who used to have a shop in London but is now based in Melbourne. Check out the Tin Tone Army on youtube for a project a few of us used to do with them.

Comment by Harvey Thompson on August 3, 2020 at 7:24am: Very original ...haunting/dark sound!! Appropriate for the topic! Well done.

Comment by 3 String Blues on July 30, 2020 at 3:05pm: awesome!

Comment by Dave Lynas on July 30, 2020 at 10:49am: Unique sound. I like it.

Comment by Danny Gordon on July 29, 2020 at 7:00pm: THAT HEADLESS GUITAR IS SOUNDING VERY GOOD, LOOKS STRANGE BUT SOUNDS GREAT. AND I THINK THE VIRUS IS HERE TO STAY

Comment by A.D.EKER on July 29, 2020 at 10:00am: all over the World ! you mean !! thanks stu ! till next time !

Comment by Uncle John on July 29, 2020 at 7:27am: Sounding ominously good on the headless.

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