Benedict Stewart Instruments

15/10/2024

....40 year wait to see David Gilmour live, from the beginnings of my musical journey.....and at the Albert Hall in London non the less ... privileged, what a show !!

22/08/2023

...we've been a bit quiet for a while, so here's a post post world gone pear shaped post, with a little something of what's been going on, there's more.....some Mopane, some Af. Blackwood and even a French Boxwood 8 key in the works lurking somewhere, .....stay tuned ;)

03/05/2019

2019 National Folk Festival Instrument Makers Exhibition..thanks to those who brought me some great tones
…Nula, Tom & Ryan and Ian for the pic
….thanks to the Flute Mafia for pressing for the tribute to Mike Grinter, you did a fine job at the closing of the festival
…….hope to hear more from you all soon and see some of you at Pt Arlington

05/04/2018

.... as the dust from the National billows around me...
.... looking forward to this years Port Arlington Festival...
.... doesn't seem too far away now..
.... flutes, whistles, I'll have...
.... late nights, mates old & new there'll be...
:)

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13/03/2018

....well, another busy long weekend in Victoria....some went to see music, near and far......some went to see art hung on a wall.......some went to see art & craft appear in front of their eyes.......and some of us were all of that
thanks for coming, talking, asking, looking, playing ...and wondering :)

03/10/2017

....here's something for the math heads....before the '59 Les Paul, came the '79 Strad
;)

03/10/2017

the build so far.
scenes from the workshop in Verona..a new space in an old place....very old place

25/09/2017

...before Verona came Paris...a visit to the Museo de Musica.. a French family, a gypsy, some Spanish guys.....I keep harping on to the younger luthiers that triple necks weren't a 20C invention...... lunch and then on the train to Lyon :)

24/09/2017

....ah Verona. Well here we are again in Verona for another year of guitar making and associated activities ;)...building guitars, looking at guitars, talking about guitars, guessing which guitar is in that song, looking at timber to build guitars from........then you have to eat......and drink....cafe....vino....aqua e gasso.....then there's gelato.......and gelato.......and gelato........then back to the guitars :)

27/04/2017

Ahh, there be flutes......and whistles...another National Folk Festival away, thanks to all those who stopped by the Instrument Makers and played some mighty tunes on the latest flutes, great stuff...next stop Port Arlington in June....I hear there'll be an expectoration of flutes gathered ;)