Hi has anyone actually built an akonting?......Just wondering how to scale it and what position to put the tuners....all the akontings I have seen have amazingly long necks....cheers
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thanx for your help guys.....am sure its not critical, as such, the scaling.....trial and error as always.....might use some violin fine tuners.....rob
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thanx for your help guys.....am sure its not critical, as such, the scaling.....trial and error as always.....might use some violin fine tuners.....rob
I bet it is not critical, just make sure you can get strings long enough, like weed wacker line.
never seen or heard of them till now.
canny instrument and sound good to.
heres a video clip of one.
https://youtu.be/lzt0v9roU6g