European Tap Seminar - photos

[Adam Fulara]

I have released a photo gallery from European Tap Seminar 2005, where I did some masterclasses, thanks to Mathias Sorof for the pictures.

Photo gallery is here:
http://adam.fulara.com/e.php?g=gallery&nr=20

http://adam.fulara.com/a/g/20/23.jpg

[Adam Fulara]

And the second gallery (from Daniel Claudio Dellavalle):

http://adam.fulara.com/e.php?g=gallery&nr=21

http://adam.fulara.com/a/g/21/10.jpg

[PhoBucket]

Thanks for posting and hosting these, Adam. The variety of tap instruments represented is very cool. In the group shot outside (album 2), what is the instrument by the guy behind Daniel, standing next to the tree, in the white shirt?

[traktor]

And what is the instrument held by the fellow standing on the far right of the photograph?

[rjgoos]

Are these instruments by Yuri Vasilievsky?

Jay

[PhoBucket]

Goose, (ha, I feel like I'm in Top Gun)

Do you have any links to Yuri's instruments?

-Ben

[rjgoos]

Sorry, no links to Yuri's instruments, other than a sparse mention in a report from Jersey Ray:

http://www.rayashley.com/superlink/europe03.htm


It is just a guess, based on the shape of the headstock, and some of Ola's pictures from the 2004 event. Someone who was actually there would need to ID the instrument.


Jay

(the origin of the last name 'Goos' is obscure. Some attribute it a Dutch dialect, where it means "near sighted", while others attribute it to an old low German slang term, meaning 'clumsy' or 'easily confused', depending on the source)

[PhoBucket]

That's all I found when I google Yuri's name.




(Not sure about the origins of bucket :rolleyes: )

[rockola]

Daniel Schell was kind enough to take me to visit Yuri Wassilevsky's workshop in Brussels back in 2003 or 2004 (after 9 times at E-tap it's all a big blur). He built both of the instruments in question. At the time I visited him, he was just putting the finishing touches to Daniel Dellavalle's instrument (the fellow standing behind Maestro Schell). Very nice, that one - carved top and so on. The other instrument is more of a "student model", with less fancy features and price to match.