Weissenborn style guitar in flamed Tasmanian Blackwood (below). This highly figured wood is sought after by instrument makers as it is related to that other great tone wood, Koa. This instrument features rope binding around the whole body and peg head, rosewood fingerboard with diamond fret markers, and dots at the twelfth fret. It now resides in North Carolina.
Price. NZ$4600
David Lindley is one of the pioneers of modern weissenborn guitar playing.
Along with Ben Harper he has revived an instrument made popular in 1920s Hawaiin
music.
David Lindley, a dynamic performer of many musical styles, owns two Burgin
weissenborn style guitars fitted with pickups for live playing.
He calls them his "Burgintwangers" and discusses them on his website.
When he's not playing music with Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder or Ben Harper,
he's touring his one man multi-instrumental solo act.
