The road to a definition of Canadian identity is strewn with the carcasses of countless academics, artists, intellectuals and politicians. Broadcaster Jowi Taylor decided to venture into this territory with an unusual vehicle: a guitar. Not as some quaint singer-songwriter but as a mad visionary traveller with an absolutely unique instrument slung over his shoulder. The Six String Nation guitar-nicknamed Voyageur-is an artwork in itself, made from sixty-odd pieces of Canadian history and heritage from all over the country: Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddle is a tone bar just inside the sound hole; the convent of the Grey Nuns in Winnipeg - once a classroom to Louis Riel - makes up much of the back and sides; Paul Henderson's hockey stick from the legendary 1972 Canada-Russia Summit Series is a detail on the pick guard: the Manoir of Louis Papineau is the centre of the guitar's neck; the sacred (and never before cut) Golden Spruce of Haida-Gwaii forms the top face of the guitar; and a fragment of gold from Maurice Richard's 1955-56 Stanley Cup ring adorns (appropriately) the 9th fret.
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Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dj. 8vo Larger Pp. 11 144. "Thanks to a crazed determination to share this guitar and his impassioned vision of Canada with as many Canadians as possible, Taylor has taken the guitar to festivals, conferences, schools and community events, from sea to sea to sea. Along the way, countless citizens have added their own definitions of what it?. book. Codice articolo 124986
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