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Wide of guitar workshop2. Mid of worker placing wood for body of guitar3. Tilt from worker to guitar's body4. Close of wood being hammered to make guitar's body5. Wide of worker thinning...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eSukawati, Bali - December 16, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of guitar workshop\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of worker placing wood for body of guitar\u003cbr/\u003e3. Tilt from worker to guitar's body\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of wood being hammered to make guitar's body\u003cbr/\u003e5. Wide of worker thinning guitar's body\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close of wood fibre\u003cbr/\u003e7. Mid of worker thinning guitar's body\u003cbr/\u003e8.  Close of half-finished guitar's body\u003cbr/\u003e9.  Pan of Wayan Tuges and worker placing the backside onto guitar's body\u003cbr/\u003e10. Close of Tuges tightening the backside of guitar's body\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close of butterfly carving on guitar\u003cbr/\u003e12. Close of hand drawing a form on guitar's neck\u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of guitar carvers working at workshop\u003cbr/\u003e14. Tilt down from carver to carving on guitar's body\u003cbr/\u003e15. Mid of worker carving guitar's neck\u003cbr/\u003e16. Wide of Tuges examining Blueberry guitars on the rack\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Wayan Tuges, Blueberry Guitar Maker:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Blueberry guitars are a combination of eastern and western arts and that makes them unique. Each Blueberry guitar has its own carving and grooving, and it produces a finer and louder sound compared to that of an ordinary guitar.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Tilt from guitar to Tuges working\u003cbr/\u003e19. Close of Tuges putting on the guitar's neck \u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of guitar's neck being tightened\u003cbr/\u003e21. Pan from carving on guitar's neck to fret wires\u003cbr/\u003e22. Mid of worker putting on fret wires on guitar's neck\u003cbr/\u003e23. Close of hand tuning the guitar \u003cbr/\u003e24. Close of hand adjusting tuning knob \u003cbr/\u003e25. Tilt from guitar to worker setting up guitar\u003cbr/\u003e26. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Wayan Tuges, Blueberry Guitar Maker:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I try to improvise and come up with a little revolution in the way guitars are made. I want to revolutionise guitar making because I'm a wood carver by profession and I feel that I can improvise freely in creating my guitars as long as they still follow the rules and have the right tunes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eSukawati, Bali - December 17, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e27. Wide of Wayan Balawan rehearsing with Blueberry guitar\u003cbr/\u003e28. Mid of Balawan rehearsing\u003cbr/\u003e29. Close of Balawan\u003cbr/\u003e30. Close of blueberry guitar\u003cbr/\u003e31. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Wayan Balawan, Blueberry Guitarist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel that a Blueberry guitar gives a unique sensation, because it is a luxury guitar, equal to other famous brands of acoustic guitars that I know of, being combined with the remarkable art of carving. Playing with a Blueberry guitar feels like I am playing with a luxury car.\" \u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eUbud, Bali - December 17, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide of guests in a cafe\u003cbr/\u003e33. Wide of Balawan performing with Blueberry guitar\u003cbr/\u003e34. Close of Balawan finger tapping \u003cbr/\u003e35. Tilt from Balawan to Blueberry guitar\u003cbr/\u003eAP Television\u003cbr/\u003eSukawati, Bali - December 17, 2010\u003cbr/\u003e36. SOUNDBITE: (Indonesian) Wayan Balawan, Blueberry Guitarist:\u003cbr/\u003e\"I hope Blueberry guitars can be sold internationally with their factory based in Bali as a new type of export product. Bali should be known to the world not only for its carving but also for its guitars.\"\u003cbr/\u003e37. Pan of guitar workshop  \u003cbr/\u003e38. Close of Blueberry guitar being polished\u003cbr/\u003e39. Mid of worker holding guitar\u003cbr/\u003e40. Tilt up of carving on guitar's neck\u003cbr/\u003e41. Close of picture of woman on guitar's neck\u003cbr/\u003e42. Wide of workers at guitar workshop\u003cbr/\u003eIntricately hand-carved guitars from Bali are marrying eastern and western style.\u003cbr/\u003eBespoke Blueberry guitars can take months to produce and cost up to USD $6,000 each. \u003cbr/\u003eOn the resort island of Bali craftsmen and carpenters are producing a very unique guitar.\u003cbr/\u003eThis small workshop in Sukawati is the home of the internationally renowned Blueberry guitar.\u003cbr/\u003eThe company was founded by Canadian musician and businessman, Danny Fonfeder in 2005 with the help of local Balinese wood carver, Wayan Tuges.\u003cbr/\u003eTheir first handmade guitars were launched at the Montreal Jazz Festival two years later. \u003cbr/\u003eBlueberry guitars - named after Fonfeder's daughter - created a splash at the festival and orders soon came flooding in.\u003cbr/\u003eThe workshop now employs 45 craftsmen and each guitar is handmade to order.\u003cbr/\u003eLocal wood from Indonesia is used to create the guitar's thin body shape and this is what gives the instrument its resonance.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Blueberry guitars are a combination of eastern and western arts and that makes them unique,\" says Tuges. \"Each Blueberry guitar has its own carving and grooving, and it produces a finer and louder sound compared to that of an ordinary guitar.\"\u003cbr/\u003eHowever, it's the intricate neck designs which really make the guitars stand out. \u003cbr/\u003eA team of carvers produces each design by hand. But first the design must be approved by its owner before production starts.\u003cbr/\u003eFlowers, animals and dragons are the most popular designs, but no two are ever the same.\u003cbr/\u003eEverything is done by hand and it can take up to two months to create a single guitar at the workshop.\u003cbr/\u003eTuges says he fuses Western and Eastern carpentry styles to create the guitars. \u003cbr/\u003e\"I try to improvise and come up with a little revolution in the way guitars are made. I want to revolutionise guitar making because I'm a wood carver by profession and I feel that I can improvise freely in creating my guitars as long as they still follow the rules and have the right tunes.\"\u003cbr/\u003eWhile Blueberry guitars are marketed heavily in Canada and the United States, local guitarists have also begun to use them.\u003cbr/\u003eBalinese native, Wayan Balawan has been playing his custom-made guitar for the last two years.\u003cbr/\u003eBalawan is known for his distinctive finger-tapping style and for fusing Balinese traditional music with jazz. \u003cbr/\u003eAt a performance in a packed cafe in Ubud, Balawan wows the crowd with his finger tapping technique.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I feel that a Blueberry guitar gives a unique sensation, because it is a luxury guitar, equal to other famous brands of acoustic guitars that I know of, being combined with the remarkable art of carving. 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