Tonnie van der Heide, gitarist / guitar player

Proudly playing my Chris Larkin ASAS 7-string

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At about age 11 I started playing on my father’s tenor guitar, a guitar with only the four highest strings of a regular (6-string) guitar. My father, who was an electrician, built a pickup from a headphone; every now and then it would pick up radio signals from passing police cars. I used a travel record player as my amp. Then my father built me my first combo guitar amp.

My first 6 string guitar was a Hagström solid body guitar, with a glittering red finish, somewhat reminiscent of their accordions, see picture below on  the right hand side. As soon as I had finished my military service I bought a Gibson ES 175 DN, I had had my eyes on for years.

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My homepage

I have tried to keep all pages in the English language, so that former colleagues, friends abroad, and other interested parties can read them.
However the page blanks from my provider have all "trimmings" in Norwegian.
On the page “translations” you will find a small "dictionary".