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About Me & My Cigar Box Guitars...
What is BellyJelly Music™?
BellyJelly is based on the most
common mispronunciation of my name, Bill Jehle. How do you say it?
Well, you don't really. You just spell it out for people. Seriously
though, with an American accent it's pronounced YAY-LEE. With a German
accent it's more of YAY-LAH.
BellyJelly Music™ is
the record label that I started in 2003 to sell my works. The beginning
was quite a challenge, costly, and frustrating, but after my first year
I couldn't believe that I didn't do this before.
Ongoing projects that I don't have time to work on but do anyway...
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MORE "HOW TO BUILD A GUITAR" VIDEOS
After all of the comments and feedback on How to Build a Guitar,
I'm working on a sequel with more projects, better video, and just
more, more, more! Some of the comments that I'm working on so far:
- An electric hybrid 6-string cigar box guitar project. There's 3 or 4 ways to make one. I will focus on 2.
- An in-depth look at the Kamaka cigar box ukulele, creating a copy, a true master class in cigar box guitars.
- DIGITAL ELECTRONICS PROJECTS FOR GUITARISTS
Just because I play cigar
box guitars, doesn't mean that my mad scientist skills are going to
waste. Thinking along the same lines as the "How to Build a Guitar"
series, I thought it would be a great idea to walk guitarists through
the process of building their own digital effects. There is so much to
do here that I don't know when I'll get to it... Perhaps after...
- BUILDING THE JEHLE GUITAR AMP
Okay Pytor, this one is for
you. Fitting in the middle of the road in terms of the guitars I make
and the electronics that I tinker with, building a tube amp with
discarded and reused radio parts is the next thing in line. I
could just have you make one for me (and I may still), but I'm going to
try to resurrect some old radios from the 1940's first. Plans for world
domination come next...
- MORE CIGAR BOX GUITARS
With a growing list of
orders from professional guitarists, national disk jockeys, and just
plain folks that want something unique as the music they play, I have
my work set out for me already. They still sell faster than I can make
them. It's a nice problem to have really. Bring it on!
Stay tuned...
Got a comment or question? eMail me.
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