Hello and welcome to museumofworldmusic.com – My name is Graeme, I'm the owner, admin and editor of this web site.

Since my early childhood I've always been fascinated with music and musical instruments and particularly ethnic instruments from all over the world. I have been playing music for a total of 14 years. My first exposure to playing musical instruments are from piano lessons and playing electronic keyboards that were not professional synthesizers. Yet they [the electronic keyboards] gave me the basics in understanding music theory. My musical instrument collection is a personal endeavour and the collection continues to grow no matter the family of musical instruments aerophones (wind instruments), chordophones (stringed instruments) plucked bowed or struck and percussion. My speciality in playing music revolves around chordophones mostly musical instruments that belong to the lute family and many other plucked instruments, some wind perhaps a couple percussion instruments. I am no expert and nor do I hold a PHD (or any degree) in ethnomusicology either. My playing and collecting of ethnic and one of a kind musical instruments is very personal exploration.

During years of persistence my parents and I with the help of our friend and fellow musician Jaron Lanier, we became connected with Randy Raine Reusch. To this day I continue my music lessons with Randy, I'm deeply grateful for not only the lessons but our friendship too. In the middle of the year 2000 I became deeply interested with the Balalaika. I briefly studied with Mr. Bibb's Eckle who now currently resides in London, England. Through a mutual friend I was introduced to Rene Hugo Sanchez a musician and resident from Rio De Oropeza Peru.

Outside of music I'm an avid tinkerer and maker when it comes to building electronic circuits, working many materials including metal, woods and plastics. I enjoy traveling when time allows for me to do so.

>>> My current music teachers and musical friends <<<

Randy Raine Reusch: http://www.asza.com/ - He is my teacher for quite a while since we first had met through a mutual friend Jaron Lanier. It was largely thanks to him and those involved who “hooked me up with Randy”. At first Randy was a bit skeptical yet when he showed me his collection at the time. I was one of the only young kids he knew in which I was able to recite the names of the instruments, stringed instruments, plucked, and bowed and so on. Randy was quite impressed and the lessons then began and stated something among the lines “there is something there with this kid”. I took that as a compliment right away and I still do to this very day too :-). In turn Randy and I remain very good friends as well as student and teacher.

Celso Machado: http://www.celsomachado.com/ - A personal friend of mine.

Jaron Lanier ~ http://www.jaronlanier.com/ - This is the musician, inventor, composer who introduced me to my teacher Randy Raine reusch.

Bill Laswell: http://music.hyperreal.org/labels/axiom/ - I consider my self very fortunate to which I had a unique very personal oporitunity to having met this amazing musician, producer, recording-artist when I was in NYC in year 1999, in which I went on vacation with my father. A friend of my fathers arranged the meeting.