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Specimen @ SOFA 2012 Art Expo
Specimen exhibited for the first time at the SOFA Art Expo in Chicago. The SOFA (Sculptural Objects and Functional Art & Design) exhibit has been presented in Chicago for the past 19 years and...
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Making 3-D Checkerboard Binding for Custom Tele
This Tele-style instrument is a commission for a local guitar player. It has an alder body with a book-matched flame-maple cap. We wanted to take this traditional instrument in a special direction so...
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Inhabitat.com
Specimen’s Hand-Crafted Horn Speakers Are Made from Recycled Newsprint and Dryer Lint by Lea Stewart Below is an excerpt from a feature about Specimen at inhabitat.com, a weblog devoted to the future...
View ArticleNew Video of Upside Down Spinning Double Horn Speaker
Specimen was fortunate enough to be selected by the kind and talented people at Fruit Bonus films to be featured in a series of short doc videos about our work. We met with Mark Pallman and his crew...
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Chicago Reader: Artist on Artist
Artist on Artist: Buke & Gase talk to Ian Schneller of Specimen Products Aron Sanchez and Arone Dyer, aka Buke & GasePhoto: Grant CornettInterviewing Buke & Gase for this weekend’s...
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Penland School of Crafts – A Mountain Oasis
At the beginning of April, I spent a week at the Penland School of Crafts, where I was invited to be a visiting artist. I have hung out in many foundries and ‘smithees’ in my time, but I have never...
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Gimbal Audio Horn Speakers taking shape, part 1
The Gimbal Horn is Specimen’s newest horn speaker. This speaker will be mounted on the ceiling and suspended using a yoke so that it can ‘gimbal’ (or rotate up and down and side to side). It seemed to...
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Pure Wow
NOW HEAR THIS New speakers from Specimen Products Our dinner parties have been suffering. Not because the food isn’t good or the cocktails are boring, but because our once-mighty–and now...
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Chicago Grid
The Humboldt Park sculptor with a client list like a Lollapalooza lineup. BY KYLE PETERSON The custom creations coming out of Specimen Products end up in the hands of Jack White and the halls of the...
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Subaru Drive Magazine
American Artisans: Ian Schneller Instruments and Sound Equipment by Andrea Poe A handcrafted piece awakens something in human beings. It was almost inevitable that Ian Schneller, a musician who trained...
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Get Fueled
Get Fueled is a collection of answers for the question : What is your creative process ? Founded by Brenda Bergen, the creative force behind Wink Design Atelier, the Blog includes interviews with...
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Electric Guitar Building Workshops
This workshop gives students creative control over the guitar’s design, shape, finish, and performing quality. At the end of the process students will have a wonderful creation that fulfills their own...
View ArticleIan Schneller and his horns
Here is a video made by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago surrounding the 2011 Sonic Arboretum at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
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Chicago Magazine
Including a brief synopsis of my 30 year career at the helm of SPECIMEN GUITAR SHOP. Shown here Im rasping the neck of an electric bass Luddite model. Ian Schneller in his workshop SPECIMEN GUITAR...
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A New Sonic Arboretum at ICA Boston
REVIEW BY STEVE FRIEDMAN Most artists don’t record in canyons. But Andrew Bird did, and it can be heard being played through over 30 colorful, Dr. Seuss-like speakers at the Institute of Contemporary...
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ICA Calla Audio Horns
The ICA “Calla” a new special edition Specimen audio horn & sat sub woofer From the ICA website: Sculptor/instrument-maker Ian Schneller and composer/violinist Andrew Bird share a fascination with...
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The Daily Free Press
The Daily Free Press Review: Canyon sounds captivate in ICA’s “Sonic Arboretum” Author: Steve Friedman Most artists don’t record in canyons. But Andrew Bird did, and it can be heard being played...
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The Boston Herald
‘Sonic Arboretum’ is a sound garden of music played on 36 horn speakers by artist Ian Schneller… [with sound] by Andrew Bird… based on echolocation, a type of sonar that animals such as whales use...
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