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Jim (Calypsonic) Herlin (Guitars, Vihuela, Ukulele, Gitarron and Doublebass) Born september 1974 in Stockholm. Started playing guitar at the age of 7, influenced early on by country, bluegrass and oldtime music. With a rebellious and creative mind, i try to stay away from traditionalists, if i wanna be put to sleep, there are so many painfree alternatives, like pills or plain old blunt force trauma to the head (not so pain free but effective nonetheless;-) Calypsovibes tend to sneak into my music whether i want them to or not ;)Lately i've developed an interest for small stringed instruments like Vihuela, Ukulele, Cavaquinho and Canarian Timple, still trying to get my right hand to do as i want ;) For the last couple of years i've been working on my own ukulele design, i made two prototypes with surprisingly decent results ;) i'm curently working on the third model which will be made in a series of 10. Check out my "blogg"

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Member Since: 18/11/2006
Band Website: www.calypsonic.com
Band Members: Jim Herlin
Influences: Ry Cooder, Flaco Jimenez, Mighty Sparrow, Duke of Iron, Taj Mahal, Pedro Infante, Hank Williams, Aventura, Lightning Hopkins, Leadbelly, Alison Krauss, The Maytals (early 60s), Sonny Landreth, Nora Jones and Don Williams are some of my daily inspiration sources.
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The Calypsonic ukulele

Never done bloging before...   About five years ago i got this idea about some kind of guitar banjo related instrument, somehow it just started happening in my head, different ideas and experienc...
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