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Killick Hinds (born 1972) of
Athens, Georgia Athens, officially Athens–Clarke County, is a consolidated city-county and college town in the U.S. state of Georgia. Athens lies about northeast of downtown Atlanta, and is a satellite city of the capital. The University of Georgia, the sta ...
is a composer and performer of a wide range of music. He plays quartertone electric guitar, as well as Big Red
harp guitar The harp guitar is a guitar-based stringed instrument generally defined as a "guitar, in any of its accepted forms, with any number of additional unstopped strings that can accommodate individual plucking." The word "harp" is used in reference to ...
and the h'arpeggione, an 18-stringed upright acoustic instrument with
sympathetic strings Sympathetic strings or resonance strings are auxiliary strings found on many Indian musical instruments, as well as some Western Baroque instruments and a variety of folk instruments. They are typically not played directly by the performer (excep ...
. Both instruments were built by Fred Carlson. Equally influenced by improvisational music and "composed" sounds, Killick's style blends primitive folk, heavy metal, and sacred music from around the world. Killick has played with improvisers including Susan Alcorn, Liz Allbee, Susie Allen, Brent Bagwell, Colin Bragg, Jeff Crouch,
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, Matthew Welch, and Eric Zinman. Killick started Sol Ponticello Records in 2001, and he released a solo H'arpeggione cover version of Slayer's '' Reign in Blood'' in 2005. Killick married Delene Porter in Key West, Florida, on August 9, 2003.


H'arpeggione

The H'arpeggione is an instrument built by Fred Carlson for Killick Hinds. It is an electric upright quartertone-fretted six-string instrument tuned from a contrabass A♭ up to E♭ (half-step below the high E on the guitar). The H'arpeggione also has 12 resonating
sympathetic strings Sympathetic strings or resonance strings are auxiliary strings found on many Indian musical instruments, as well as some Western Baroque instruments and a variety of folk instruments. They are typically not played directly by the performer (excep ...
which run through the neck and emerge over the body and run to a separate buzzing bridge. The body is larger than an acoustic guitar, with an arched fingerboard and a bridge for bowing or plucking, a spike for upright playing position, and the top of (recycled) redwood.


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KillickSpotlight Killick Hinds
Guitar Moderne, March 2017.
Extreme Guitar
Guitar Player, October 2010.
Free Radical
Athens Banner-Herald, September 2009.

''Sweet Pea'', 2008. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hinds, Killick 1972 births Living people Musicians from Athens, Georgia Songwriters from Athens, Georgia Guitarists from Georgia (U.S. state) 21st-century American guitarists