Play Narrandera’s BIG guitar
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Largest Playable Guitar in the Southern Hemisphere
“A unique instrument with deep bass notes that you’ve got to hear”
Narrandera’s big guitar is a town attraction and unique instrument
It’s now available for your productions
Download free sample packs to use sounds from the guitar in your recordings
Please use the hashtag #bigguitar
so we can hear the result
G’day!
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Largest Playable Guitar
in the Southern Hemisphere!
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Professionally recorded
These sample packs were recorded by Tom ‘Wasabi’ Jones and Jason Richardson using an Earthworks SR25 condenser pair, Barcus-Berry 4000 Planar Wave pickup and AKG C680BL
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Download the Big Guitar sample libraries: Ableton Live (179mb) Kontakt (94mb) Individual Samples (277mb) These recordings are made available using a Creative Commons licence. We ask in return for attribution and for you to freely share them. Please use the hashtag #bigguitar so we can hear your track.
Three local musicians have composed demonstration tracks with the big guitar:
Fiona Caldarevic: (shown) accomplished arranger, orchestrator and composer
Vic McEwan: NSW Regional Arts Fellow and artist with The Cad Factory
Jason Richardson: innovative musician who records as Bassling (video below)
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Local musicians composing with the big guitar
Recognised as the World’s Largest Playable Guitar and included in the 1991 edition of the Guinness Book of Records
Built by Robert Palmer in 1988 to promote the Country Music Club of Narrandera
It took more than 300 hours to construct
With a length of 5.82 metres, width of 2.02 metres and strings over 3.98 metres
Narrandera’s Big Playable Guitar remains the largest in the Southern Hemisphere
History
See the Largest Playable Guitar in Australia
Narrandera Shire Council are the custodians of the largest playable guitar in Australia and supported this project through auspicing a grant and making the instrument available to be recorded
Tuning was completed by Chris Kschenka of Custom Music
Online assistance by Abre Ojos
This project is supported by Create NSW’s Country Arts Support Program, a devolved funding program administered by Regional Arts NSW and Western Riverina Arts on behalf of the NSW Government