The Six String Nation guitar made a stop at our workplace today. This is a guitar made by George Rizsanyi, a custom luthier who incorporated 60 or so artifacts from Canadian history and culture into its design. It has already been played by a number of Canadian folk musicians, and civilians are also having their pictures taken with it, as did two of my co-workers, becoming part of the Six String Nation project initiated by CBC radio personality Jowi Taylor. Although I haven’t heard it played, it certainly looks beautiful, in a honey-colored Canadiana kind of way. It contains a wooden nickel from the Maid of the Mist (don’t tale any wooden nickels, as my mother used to say), a piece from the second oldest stone in the world, fragments of Montreal Forum and Massey Hall seats, bits of a log from Jack London’s cabin, shavings from Wayne Gretsky’s and Paul Henderson’s (Canada vs. USSR) hockey sticks, gold from Rocket Richard’s Stanley Cup ring, wood from: L.M. Montgomery’s family home and post office, Trudeau’s canoe paddle, a Finnish soup stirrer, a bagel shibba (from Fairmount Bagel Bakery – they were great right out of the bag, still hot from the oven), a Doukhabor grain elevator (I had a distant relative who was a Doukhabor – he liked to run around naked, which I think was one of their customs), and the doorway to the first Chinatown in Canada (Fan Tan Alley); as well as various First Nations artifacts, and more…
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