Musical Use
The English guitar manufacturer Shergold/Hayman used Obeche as body wood in some of their 1970s models. Gibson is now using Obeche for the fingerboard of certain Les Paul models. Fender Japan introduced three limited edition guitars with Ayous bodies in 2013.
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Famous quotes containing the word musical:
“Fifty million Frenchmen can’t be wrong.”
—Anonymous. Popular saying.
Dating from World War I—when it was used by U.S. soldiers—or before, the saying was associated with nightclub hostess Texas Quinan in the 1920s. It was the title of a song recorded by Sophie Tucker in 1927, and of a Cole Porter musical in 1929.
“Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)