Metallic strings – 1960
François BASCHET, during his round-the-world trip at the end of the second world war, invented the inflatable guitar in order to avoid carrying too big a luggage.
In the years preceding the invention of the Cristal, right in the middle of acoustic research, he developed the crying guitar, itself grandmother of metallic strings.
The instrument is equiped with 14 strings that are played by pinching or in percussion. The buckling of the frame allows for an effect called « glissando ». (dim. 110 x 100 x 100)
Private collection BASCHET brothers.
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