The meet the maker page

Hello there and what are you doing here in such an unglamorous cyberspace backwater?

Anyway, I am called Ron Berry and I have been making musical instruments since 1988 as a hobby and I started as a business under the Neis scheme in 2005 and hope to show a profit some year soon...

If you have a fantasy instrument that you would like to have me make and\or need my advice or services I am most interested to hear from you so don't be shy.

Feel free email me or even to make an offer on any of the instruments weather unfinished or marked for sale as 'bids' are retractable, non-binding and fun. If you are the highest bidder so far and I am feeling like I need some cash at that moment, who knows?...Ensuing negotiations could lead to one day when an unheardof instrument arrives in your life... and things will never be the same again...

Some of the revortexed guitars and a good selection of mouth harps, drums and musical bits are to be found in Russels Music in Lismore where I have sold numerous guitars and drums.

Also there are always some of the special musical treasures I sell at my market stall which I set up in The Channon, Lismore Carboot Market, sometimes Byron Bay or Bangalow markets, and a random assortment of small festivals and dance parties. The next one is Southern Oracle QLD. You'll find things like the jaw harps and mouth harps, hand blown pyrex glass guitar slides made by my mate Al at ussher glass, nylon wound bass strings, an Ashbory rubber string bass and strings, maybe a frankenstrat or recycled resonator, local handmade double ocarinas, stacks of plectrums, strings, friends CD's...

Here is a picture of me and my son Kian when he was a baby and one me and the kids and of my ex Nell standing between Birtha the Double-Bass Banjo and the banjo bass viol.

Here is a view of the culdera from down the hill on the way to Nimbin.

This one is looking west from the top of the border ranges.

The 8-string fretless electric bass below was the first instrument I completed for my business (but for thecontrol cavity cover being put back on) in November 2006 and it unfortunately was almost immediately stolen from my home mbefore I even heard it plugged in! It sounded awesome when I played it with my chin against the body the night I first strung it up and I hadn't even done the intonation.

Should you happen to see it (with a bone nut, a single strange `music tech' black humbucking pickup, chrome and abalone topped knobs and a chrome Schaller bridge, flat wound strings and a canon output jack) I would very much like to have it back (and so would my customer.)

A handsome reward will be paid to the person who returns it, or for information leading to it's recovery. I can be contacted at:

ron*unheardofinstruments.com. (the * is a @)

I play bass, guitar, percussion and drum kit (in rapidly descending order I dabble in all sorts of other quasi-musical endevours) My 7yo son Kian will play anything I let him get hold of and has his own rambunctious style and a trumpet which he loves. My amazing little 4yo girl Alia Rose who was showing dancing prowess already at 9 weeks is now learning some songs too, is pretty enthusiastic on her new violin and sings and dances beautifully.

I live on an intentional community with glass artists, musicians, a designer of clothes, environmental activists and wierdo's. Many musicians and artists and travellers blow through regularly or do woofing and together we try to grow organic vegetables and tend the fruit orchards, etc. The larger community around the hills constantly amaze me and give me a great sense of being in a tribe and of being part of something special. Most like to feel part of the solution in some way and the alternative health and technology movement has deep roots here and knowledgeable folk in the application of it abound.

I am working on some other interesting projects too at present, I am selling an amazing ecological cleaner invented in Australia which is incredible stuff and building a site for that and a full fairing recumbent electric bike has been taking up a lot of time but is a lot of fun too. I am also converting porsche 924 martini to electric and making a trailer from a wrecked one for a range extender. I did a squidoo lens on my electric transport stuff here.

I have some instruments for sale at present, mostly fankenstein guitars (rebuilt wrecking yard creations lovingly revortexed and tweaked; made for the discerning players on a budget who want something unique, with a good set up, straight and with a lot more character and quality than the factory guitars have but for a similar price. Lots of very happy customers. Check the shopping cart for buying jaw harps and whatever else happens to be posted today. I am open to offers, trades, deals etc. on anything you see on the site.

This is my market stall;