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Stephen Williamson began
making
his uniquely designed rattles in 1992. Hundreds have been made
since, each one original. They are now in use on every continent
excepting,
perhaps, Antarctica.
He
makes a great variety of rattles, some purely decorative, others
designed
for musicians or shamanic
journeying,
and he makes them out of many materials--gourds, plastic,
leather,
even metal. In 1994 he developed a new idiophone made of cherry and
walnut
wood, a pair of joined 'click
sticks'
that can be used for dancing or journeying. In 1996 he began making
revived
and original versions of the ancient metal disk rattle,the sistrum. He
has taught gourd rattle making at work-
shops and roundtables at Jean
Houston's
Mystery School for five years. He has presented and shown his
instruments
at Shamanic conferences.
Steve
is the coeditor of the Motley Focus Locus, an Internet hub of five
magazine
and six forumsor "Committees
of Correspondence." He is an editor oftwo
Internet e-zinesBlack Raven: A
Magazine of Myth and Symbolic
Studies
and Open Tradition:
Shamanism
and Western Gnostic Tradition.
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