The musician who turned his uncle’s skeleton into a guitar will surprise you why

A YouTuber found a unique and sick way to keep his uncle close to him after his death. A. Tampa musicianIt goes by the name ‘Prince MidnightHe designed a guitar using the bones of his late uncle, who introduced him to rock music on YouTube. But sentimentality may not be the only reason to do this. He allegedly came up with the idea after it became too expensive for his family to continue paying for the bones to be stored in the cemetery.
In one of the videos published by Prince Midnight on his YouTube channel, where he uses the skeleton as a guitar, he writes: “The skeleton belonged to my beloved Uncle Filip, who passed away in the 90s. Through a series of events, his remains were returned from Greece to the United States and came into my possession. He was a metalhead and guitar player in life, now he continues to crumble in death!

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According to Midnight’s report, Uncle Filip died in a motorcycle accident in Greece in 1996. Following Uncle Filip’s death, his body was donated to a local medical school for research and studies. For 20 years, students studied the human body. After the college returned the skeleton, Midnight’s family had to pay rent to hide it in a cemetery, as the use of real skeletons was subsequently banned in Greece. “20 years later he found himself in a cemetery where my family had to pay rent. It’s literally like in a wooden box. In Greece it’s a big problem because the Orthodox religion doesn’t want people to be cremated,” Midnight told HuffPost.

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Midnight used the spinal cord and ribs as the basis for his guitar and improved it further by adding strings, volume knobs, a guitar neck, jack, pickups, and an electrical board to complete it. The instrument cannot play certain chords, but other than that it works just fine and has been called a “skeletonist.” In an interview with Guitar World, he said: “I believe some part of my uncle Filip is still there, literally and figuratively. Just a warm presence, perhaps enjoying his next life as an all-metal guitar.” Midnight is proud of his project and believes his uncle would want the same if he were alive. He said: “I am extremely proud of the project and how it serves to honor him, his life and the impact he had on me.”