Michael O'Shea
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Michael O’Shea (11 July 1947 - 18 December 1991) was an experimental folk musician from Newry, Northern Ireland, who played a unique handmade string instrument he called “Mo Chara” (Irish for “My Friend”), loosely based on the blueprints for a North African zither. The instrument had seventeen main strings, with six more sympathetic strings which added a profound resonance similar to a sitar. It typically played by O'Shea with a pair of sticks (often chopsticks, drumsticks, or paintbrush handl
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hartford
- Place of death
- Dallas
- Spouse
- Virginia Mayo
- Occupation
- film actor
- Political party
- Republican Party (United States)
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- MichaelOSheaLadyofBurlesque1.jpg
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- Michael O'Shea
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- date of birth
- 1906-03-17
- date of death
- 1973-12-04
- manner of death
- natural causes
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- Michael O'Shea
- writing language
- English language
- start of work period
- 1943-00-00
- end of work period
- 1971-00-00
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