{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2023}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Hannes Coetzee | image = | caption = Hannes Coetzee using a teaspoon to play the melody of a song | birth_name = Hannes Coetzee | alias = | birth_date = 1944 | birth_place = South Africa | origin = | instrument = Guitar | genre = Blues | occupation = Aloe Tapper | years_active = | label = | associated_acts = | website = | current_members = | past_members = }}
'''Hannes Coetzee''' (born 1944) is a guitarist from the Karoo region in South Africa. He is mainly known for his unique playing technique using a spoon in his mouth to play slide guitar.<ref name="Stuijt">{{cite web|url=http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/263133?tp=1|title=Think you can play the guitar? Try a spoon...|last=Stuijt|first=Adriana|date=6 December 2008|publisher=DigitalJournal.com}}</ref> This playing technique is called 'optel en knyp', which roughly translates to "pick and pinch".<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=A Gentleman's Bedside Book: Entertainment for the Last Fifteen Minutes of the Day|author=Cutler, T.|date=2010|publisher=Constable & Robinson Limited|isbn=9781849018036|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ST1ER6vvCT4C}}{{Dead link|date=July 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Coetzee reached a broader audience when David Kramer's documentary ''Karoo Kitaar Blues'' was released in 2003.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXN9f-uiCHs HANNES COETZEE (Tea Spoon Guitar) - Karoo Kitaar Blues (2002)]</ref>
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==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070213011404/http://www.davidkramer.co.za/popups/press/karoo.htm Short biography on David Kramer's homepage] (scroll down)
==Further reading== * "[http://www.ideaconnection.com/right-brain-workouts/00315-spoon-me-a-tune-hannes.html Spoon Me a Tune, Hannes]" on ''Ideaconnection''
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