George rizsanyi biography

Acoustic guitar assembled from representative pieces of Canadian history and society

Six String Nation is a public art and history project conceived by Jowi Taylor and centred around a steel-string acoustic guitar built from a variety of artifacts collected by Taylor representing diverse cultures, communities, characters and events from every province and territory of Canada.

The building of the guitar was commissioned from Nova Scotia luthier George Rizsanyi.^[1]

History

The idea to build the guitar was conceived by Taylor in the months preceding the 1995 Quebec referendum on sovereignty after a chance encounter with Rizsanyi, who was then attempting to build guitars using wood from local sources rather than more conventional exotic woods.

While the impending referendum focussed on the political relationship between the province of Quebec as a franc