Instruments

The stringed instrument collection of Andrew Charman-Williams. I don’t have an exact count as it depends which instruments are included (there are some like cigar box guitars and some junk instruments that are not included here) but I have well in excess of 100 including a mixture of instruments that are more for decoration and interest such as most of the ones in the Other Instruments section as well as the guitars, mandolins and other western instruments I play. In addition to the stringed instruments I have various pianos and keyboards, harmonicas, drums and percussion, tin whistles, recorders, saxophones and other instruments and of course all the virtual instruments that reside in my computers.

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Full listing of instruments

Cuatro

This is a Puerto Rican style cuatro with the more violin-like waist. It has 10 strings arranged as five courses which is one of the more modern versions. As the name relates to four other cuatros have 4 strings or 8 strings arranged as four courses. Typical tuning is B3/B2, E4/E3, A3/A3, D4/D4, G4/G4.
Cura Saz

The cura saz is an instrument of middle-eastern origin, especially the areas around Turkey. Naming conventions vary a bit but this small saz is often known as a cura saz. I also have a larger one known as a bağlama saz.
Daniel Brauchli polymer string mandolin

A mandolin made by Daniel Brauchli from Australia. He calls this style polymer string or classical mandolin. It is fitted with a mixture of nylon and fluorocarbon strings. Western red cedar top, eucalyptus back, sides and neck and fitted with an under saddle pickup.
Eastman MD304 mandolin
Eastman MD515V mandolin
Eastman MDA315 mandola
Eastman MDO305 octave mandolin
Eastwood Classic Tenor electric guitar

The Eastwood Classic Tenor is an electric tenor guitar with a semi-hollow body and two humbucker pickups. Like tenor banjos tenor guitars can be strung and tuned in different ways including the fifths tunings CGDA and GDAE/GDAD or Chicago tuning DGBE. This is currently in 5ths tuning.
electric octave mandolin
Enya concert ukulele
Enya tenor ukulele
Epiphone Biscuit resonator guitar
Epiphone Dot electric guitar
Epiphone SG Special electric guitar

Epiphone SG Special. Currently has a broken nut so I will need to replace that.
Epiphone Wildkat electric guitar
Eston fretless acoustic/electric bass guitar
Fender 50th Anniversary American Deluxe Stratocaster

Fender 50th Anniversary American Deluxe Stratocaster. One of a few instruments with a broken string or needing restringing- have to have a restringing session soon. One of the positions of the switch has stopped working so I will need to investigate that as well. Luckily with plenty of alternatives when I break a string I pick a different guitar.
Fender Ashbory bass
Fender Jazz Bass
Fender Strat electric guitar
Fender Telecaster (Mexican) electric guitar
Gibson ES-175 hollow body electric guitar
Gibson Les Paul BFG
Gibson RD Artist bass guitar
Gibson SG Worn Brown electric guitar
Gladstone Guitars Irish bouzouki

Irish bouzouki made by Gladstone Guitars from Australia.
Glover fretless nylon string banjo
Goodtime fretless banjo
Graham McDonald flatback mandolin

Carved top, flatpack mandolin by Graham McDonald. Spruce top, Brazilian Rosewood back and sides.
Graham McDonald Stromberg-Voisinet style mandolin

Graham McDonald Stromberg-Voisinet style short-scale mandolin. Canted spruce top, Tulip Satinwood back/sides.
Greg Bennett baritone ukulele
Greg Bennett concert ukulele
Hohner TWP600B acoustic-electric bass guitar

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