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Win a Genuine Andean Quena Flute

Kier — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:10:37 +0000

It’s about time I posted another competition here on Street Musician – so this time instead of giving away free beer money, I thought I’d go a bit more upmarket and give away one of these.

Aymara Jacaranda Quena Flute

This is a genuine Andean quena flute made of Bolivian Jacaranda wood and is one of my best selling instruments on my Bolivian website.

Yeah, I know this is supposed to be a guitar blog, but I’ve not yet got the cash to start throwing guitars at my viewers, so maybe next year.

These flutes are amazing things and you can’t get any more genuine than this one.

Sourced from the hands of the maker ‘Mr Mamani’ himself - high in the mountains of the Andes, this flute has already travelled over 6,000 miles to get here and could be travelling another few thousand to any one of my readers across the globe who enter this competition.

This flute is one of the best makes you can get and comes with a free woven quena cover of your choice. I’ll post some pics of those in a day or two.

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It is worth at least £25 £32 not including shipping costs and that’s from my own web shop, it should be worth a lot more. Many of my customers who buy these Aymara Jacaranda quenas end up coming back for more, and they’ll often also buy one of my Wayacan wood quenas to try out the difference in sounds produced by these wonderful South American hardwoods.

Being a guitarist, I never thought playing one of these would interest me, but once you give it a go you’ll find they are completely addictive. The main challenge is just trying to get a note out of the thing in the first place, never mind the three octaves they produce.

They say the Andean quena is one of the hardest flutes in the world to play and for a beginner you’ll probably find that is completely right. For the first few days you’ll probably spin out a few times and get major head rushes while you struggle to get the angles and air flow to split just right over the mouthpiece, but once you’ve got the hang of it, you’ll find it gets easier every time you pick it up and it’s really good fun just to mess about with.

How to Enter

Entering the competition is easy, just use the comment form below to post a few words on why you want one of these Andean quenas, and who ever I judge to have posted the best comment wins.

I’ll be posting the winning entry later this month on 29th June (my birthday in fact), so who ever wins we should both have a great day…or two as in my case.

My last competition only had one entry and that was me, so I got to win my own cash back. Let’s see if we do a bit better this time.

Just so I get a crack at it, incase no one else does – I’ll post my comment first.

Cheers.

Competition Update

After marketing these things at ridiculous knockdown prices for months, I’ve just introduced a long overdue price rise across my entire range of flutes ( can’t keep selling all my stuff for peanuts you know ! ) making this amazing quena even more valuable and an even better prize.

…not only that, but instead of the beautiful woven cover that I was going to include with this prize, I’m now upgrading it to one of my special ‘deluxe’ woven covers, providing extra thickness and added protection for your quena. These deluxe covers have been made especially for Original Artisan by our luthier’s own wife…how cool is that.

…aren’t I good to you ! Eh ?

Birthday Winner Announcement

Right, I was going to announce the winner this afternoon, but I’m being dragged out for a birthday celebration…so the chances are I won’t be in a fit state to judge in a few hours time.

I’m going to keep the competition open till 12 midnight so you can get the last of your entries in and tomorrow when I’ve sobered up a bit, I’ll announce the winner.

Stay tuned cause someone’s going to have a very lucky day.

Happy Birthday people.

Kier

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Ok…So thanks to everyone who entered and special thanks to Sarssipius from who gave my competition a huge boost by announcing it on his excellent competition site G.A.S. a Gogo. All your comments were so good I couldn’t decide which one deserved to win so I thought I’d choose another method to select the winner.

Check out my vid below to see how I chose the winner, and yes… I am a bad shot and no, I didn’t know the horse – I think it was just hungry…and yes, I did have a birthday hangover.

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That crazy horse wouldn’t stop hassling me as I was packing up and was chewing everything in sight, we made friends in the end. I don’t know why but I seem to get hassled just about everywhere I go nowadays. If it’s not buy some nutty tramp, it’s some crazy animal.

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So ‘Congratulations’ to our well deserved competition winner Cédric Lechevrel, your Jacaranda quena and deluxe cover will be on it’s way to you as soon as you mail me your shipping address and tell me what colour cover you would like me to send with your flute, red, green or blue.

Fate decided who kept the prize this time but stick around cause there’s going to be loads more competitions to win more cool stuff like this here on Street Musician over the next few months, (if I can afford it that is). If any of you guys or girls who entered the competition would like one of my Andean quenas, just for entering you get %15 of any of my Andean quenas from my shop Original Artisan, just drop me a line and I’ll give you a discount code.

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Thanks to everyone who entered, your comments did crack me up and the fact that so many of you entered just made my day.

Take it easy and keep an eye out for more competitions coming soon.

Cheers.

Win £50 000

Kier — Thu, 20 May 2010 00:41:30 +0000

With the World Cup coming up and the first England match being smack in the middle of my stag do in Newquay, it’s gonna be a blinder…if I’m conscious enough to watch it that is.

I thought this would be appropriate. If you want a chance of winning £50,000 check out the vid below.

..and no, it’s not a porn video !

Competitions : Free Entry To Win Great Prizes

Kier — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:28:24 +0000

Welcome to Street Musician’s new competition section.

Over the next few weeks and months if I get a good response from this sites readers, I’ll be posting a few competitions every now and then to win cash prizes and other various goodies to make your day go with a smile.

Free Beer Competition

SORRY !

ENTRY TO THE BEER COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED – 14.05.09

THE WINNER OF THE FREE BEER COMPETITION IS

ME !

That’s right folks, the only person to sign up for the free beer competition in 4 whole weeks was me, and as I don’t count – we only needed 1 person to enter for a guaranteed 100% chance of winning. Not bad for a free tenner.

Never mind – The next competition we hold will be for something even more amazing – Stick around to find out what’s happening over the next few weeks.

Kier

To celebrate this blog’s recent spectacular entry into the Top 20 greatest guitar blogs on the planet, I’ve decided to give away a free booze up to one of our lucky readers and give them a chance to join in the festivities and celebrate with us.

That’s right, I’ve got a tenner to send to one of you lucky people to get yourselves down to your local beer shop, pub or supermarket and get yourself some beers, a couple of bottles of wine or what ever you fancy and have a few free drinks courtesy of Street Musician.

All you have to do to enter is click the link below and fill in your email address in the ‘Get Street Musician for Free’ feed burner subscription form.

This will also get you the latest editions of Street Musician delivered to you by email, free of charge and for as long as you wish. How great is that !

Click below to enter.

Enter Competition & Get Street Musician For Free

The winner will be announced in around about a month from today’s date, (see below) and the beer money will be sent to the winner via Paypal immediately after the prize is drawn.

If you haven’t got a Paypal account, get one here for free (it only takes a minute to sign up and they come in real handy)

The only other regulation is that you have to spend the cash on getting yourself a few of your favourite drinks and not on other useless items such as food, clothing or anything remotely useful.

Good luck

Feel free to leave a comment below once you’ve entered and let everyone else know who’s in.

SORRY ! THE ABOVE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED.14/05/09

Posted 16.04.09

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