Buy quality, handmade gourd musical instruments including: gourd banjos, gourd mandolins, kalimbas and a kora by Patrick Loafman.
Patrick's fretless gourd banjos are perfect for clawhammer/old-time banjo playing.
Patrick Loafman, gourd artist and author, with his gourd musical instruments, including a gourd kalimba, gourd mandolin, 2 gourd banjos and a kora.
Latest news:
3/28/13 Patrick's novel, Somewhere Upriver, is accepted for publication by Event Horizon Press and should be in print by July 2013. One main character in the novel obsessively plays his homemade gourd banjo.
11/21/12 Patrick is starting to work on a new gourd banjo, his fifth. He also has a collection of short stories accepted for publication by Shelfstealers.
3/20/11 Patrick finished making his first kora, a 21-string African harp.
2/2/11 Two new gourd banjos made.
1/10/10 Second gourd mandolin finished.
7/15/09 Patrick finished making a gourd mandolin on and he is busy working on the second one.