"What about the aesthetics? It's the first edeophone anglo I've seen"

As I said - it looks nice - but what is the importance of aestetics for a technical/practical device if function is suffering? It is not primarily a piece of art but something meant to be used for music making and features aiming to facilitate that object ought to have greater impact on design.This doesn't mean that looks is unimportant but it may be significant that hobby musicians are more particular about how an instrument looks than how it sounds...