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Francis Kosheleff

Francis Kosheleff joined GAL in 1979 and has maintained his membership continuously ever since. He joined the human race (some doubt it) when he was born in France in 1929 to French and Russian parents. A compulsive inventor and part-time luthier, he builds mostly instruments that no other luthier would build: balalaikas, domras, packaxes, and others with folding, adjustable, or detachable necks.

▪ bio current as of 2001

It Worked for Me: Portable Amplification System

2001
AL#65 p.65   BRB6 p.456            
Francis Kosheleff                                                                                           

▪ A portable battery powered sound system featuring PA box cabinets designed to visually reflect the instruments played by the Balka quartet for a gig in the Santa Cruz mountains.

The Ukrainian Bandura: A Distant Relative of the Harp Guitar

1994
AL#38 p.34   BRB4 p.42            
Francis Kosheleff                                                                                           

▪ A typical bandura looks like a melted acoustic guitar with about a hundred extra strings spread across the body. OK, not that many. A lot, though. Kosheleff knows these Russians well.

Three Legged Bridge

1989
AL#19 p.59   BRB2 p.479            
Francis Kosheleff                                                                                           

▪ Got a movable bridge instrument with ladder-style bracing? Want to try a bridge design that might offer an improvement in tone? Kosheleff has an idea you should look at.

Wonders of the Lutherie World: The Feral Balalaika

1989
AL#19 p.61               
Francis Kosheleff                                                                                           

▪ The well known fact that domestic animals abandoned in the forest will revert to their ancestral state, as applied to stringed instruments.

Review: L’ELAN

1989
AL#20 p.56               read this article
Francis Kosheleff                                                                                           

▪ The reviewer finds this little Canadian magazine put out by a lutherie school to be “interesting but not too deep.”

Nylon/Steel String Guitar

1986
AL#8 p.35   BRB1 p.463            
Francis Kosheleff                                                                                           

▪ Kosheleff changes the treble quality of his classical guitars by using three steel strings run through the standard bridge and then attached to a tailpiece.