Merlin Speers

After 37 years of falling deeper into the multiverse that is music theory I walked into a music shop on the morning of my 38th birthday and saw something new, the Seagull Merlin. I read my music catalogues cover to cover each quarter, but here was something unique that I had not seen before. When I found out that my family had one on the way for me for Christmas I was overjoyed. I went onto Google to look up a neck diagram and chord chart to find only a void. I knew immediately that my window had opened. By the end of the day I had developed charts diagrams and tabs. By February I had published my first book. Unfortunately at the same time my nervous system was plotting against me. I came down with shingles which has left me with a constant debilitating pain in my right eye. I've got the plans for 12 more books in my head. I look forward to recovering and getting the other 12 books out into the world...

The Seagull Merlin is a diatonic instruments which means it has less notes available on the neck than a guitar or banjo. Rather than limiting my perspective, it has clarified my understanding of music theory. It is similar to the phenomenon of being able to learn constellations more easily in a city, because you only see the brightest stars.