Far too long ago...

[Rob MacKillop]

Circa 1990

RobLutebw by RobMacKillop, on Flickr​

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Just found it while searching for something else.

 

[Pete Askew]

Is that a Daguerreotype?!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

No. It's a posertype.

 

[Paul Lange]

Was this taken just before you poured lighter fluid over the lute and set fire to it?

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Nice pose Rob.

 

[Brian Moore]

No. It's a posertype.

I thought it was a lute.

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Was this taken just before you poured lighter fluid over the lute and set fire to it?

That was Hendrix, Paul. Rob smashes his. (He tought Townsend.)

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Calm down everyone. Actually there are stories of 17th-century lute players showing off with by playing the lute behind their back, jumping on tables, etc. Nothing new under the sun.

 

[Dave Moss]

That looks like it has as many strings as Mike Rutherfords guitar in Land of Confusion Video (Think it was 5 Guitars in one spitting image video)

 

[Rob MacKillop]

It has 19 strings - nine pairs and one single first string. It is called a 10-course lute.