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Steve has been playing guitar since he was 16, and bass since he was 17. He built his first electric guitar at the age of 17 because he could not afford to buy one--it was pretty crude! But it worked, and his next project was an electric bass. When he started playing guitar again in 1985 after many years away from music, he bought a Jazz Bass copy, then proceeded to upgrade it by replacing parts that included the neck, pickguard, pickups, bridge, and tuners, until all that remains of the original bass is the body itself--EVERY other part has been replaced at least once, and the neck 5 times! He now has four acoustic guitars, seven basses, and several electric guitars including the Cyr Guitars inventory of instruments for sale. Steve started teaching himself to play keyboards in the late 80's when he discovered that you could connect them to computers through something called MIDI. Since then he has also discovered the magic of the electromechanical organs built by Laurens Hammond and the Hammond Organ Company, and the speaker systems built for them by Don Leslie and the Electro Music Company. He now owns a Hammond Model A, two Leslie speakers, a Roland A70 MIDI Controller, and a copy of Native Instruments B4, a software Hammond Organ simulator. Steve has had a long career in the computer industry. A long-time tinkerer with electronics, Steve built four of the eight computers in the house, he built three guitar amplifiers when he was in high school, and has built a number of speaker cabinets as well. Off and on over the last 20 years Steve has participated in music ministries at the churches he has attended, including playing bass and keyboards in contemporary worhip bands at Mount Olive Lutheran Church in Milpitas CA, Friendship Community Church in Roseville CA, and Trinity Lutheran Church in Sacramento CA. He is presntly working with the pastor of St Matthew Lutheran Church in Roseville CA on organizing a contemporary worship band there.  In these pages are pictures and information about all of the personal instruments and musical equipment Steve has acquired, built, collected and worked on over the years: |
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