London 'Most Canadian' guitar making stops in midwestern Ontario Voyageur, a six-string guitar made from 64 pieces of “Canadiana” visits FE Madill Secondary School in Wingham. (Scott Miller/CTV News Londno) Share The sweet sounds of ‘Canada's guitar’ echo through the gymnasium at F.E.
Madill Secondary School in Wingham. "This is Voyageur, the six-string nation guitar. It's made of 64 different pieces of history and heritage from communities and cultures and characters from every province and territory of Canada," said Jowi Taylor, the man behind the creation of Voyageur, the six string nation guitar.
Voyageur is more a piece of art, than musical instrument. Over the course of several years, Taylor brought together pieces of Canadiana, popular and painful, to create the steel string guitar. A piece of Paul Henderson's 1972 Summit Series stick, a nugget of Maurice ‘Rocket’ Richard's Stanley Cup Ring, a slice of fabric from a seat at Massey Hall, even a piece of wood from a Residential School, make up the guitar.
"It's a fantastic blend of culture and music and storytelling that's just a very unique opportunity from a very uniquely Canadian instrument," said Madill music teacher, Eric Varillas. Designed as a unifying piece of history, Taylor has been touring across Canada with Voyageur since its creation in 2006. Musical stars like Gordon Lightfoot and Geddy Lee have played it, but now, so to have three aspiring high school musicians from Wingham.
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