{"id":4034,"date":"2020-01-10T09:24:41","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T09:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kildare.ie\/ehistory\/?p=4034"},"modified":"2024-06-24T10:12:52","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T09:12:52","slug":"invented-multi-sound-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/invented-multi-sound-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Invented &#8216;Multi-sound&#8217; Guitar; Kilcock man Michael Dillon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leinster Leader<\/em> 18 September 1965<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Invented &#8216;Multi-sound&#8217; Guitar; Kilcock man Michael Dillon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Kilcock man who has been living in England for the past number of years has invented a remarkable new musical instrument. He is 34-year-old Michael Dillon, of Winnersh, Wakingham, and formerly of School Street, Kilcock. His father, Tom Dillon, was a postman in the town for many years. Before leaving Kilcock Michael was a member of the Clan Fitzgerald Pipers.<\/p>\n<p>The instrument which looks like a double armed guitar can play rhythm and bass simultaneously. The other section can sound like a clarinet, various woodwind instruments, an ordinary lead guitar, supply Hawaiian music or something that sounds like a cross between a mandolin and a violin &#8211; all at the flick of a switch. And together with all this drums are played by pumped air.<\/p>\n<p>Michael, who at the age of eight made a mandolin, calls his new method of instrumentation &#8220;multi-manipulation.&#8221; He shaped the instruments with a hatchet and knife and also made the pick-ups, etc. Together with a friend John Heighes, a former professional trad musician Michael has already written 300 songs &#8211; ranging from country and western and ballads to ballads and nursery songs. All being well they hope to begin performing with the new instrument later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leinster Leader 18 September 1965 Invented &#8216;Multi-sound&#8217; Guitar; Kilcock man Michael Dillon A Kilcock man who has been living in England for the past number of years has invented a remarkable new musical instrument. He is 34-year-old Michael Dillon, of Winnersh, Wakingham, and formerly of School Street, Kilcock. His father, Tom Dillon, was a postman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Kildare Local Studies","author_link":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/author\/localstudies\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kildarelibraries.ie\/ehistory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}