I ran across an instrument called a stroh violin. it is like a violin with no resonating body. Instead it had a resonator and a horn attached to the bridge. A good site with photos is http://www.notecannons.com/index.html look under STROVIOLS on the
Read more…I was wondering, the portion of the neck that gets glued to the underside of the cigar box, has anyone tried scooping some of the neck out so more of the lid can vibrate? So maybe only an inch on the top and bottom are actually glued to the cigar box
Read more…Finally made a video of my first CBG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3D2lBlAd5s
Read more…Here is the link to my final fiddle-gurdy, unless I decide to put frets on :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r0wIp0A9BQ
Read more…I know it is a little off topic, but I am working on a making a fiddle gurdy. Here is Dennis Havlena's link for it: http://dennishavlena.com/fiddlegu.htm I think I have a oddness in my makeup that makes be want to make something different than what
Read more…Stroviols Horn Fiddle on ebay, could someone pop over to England and buy this for me? It's a one string fiddle with a diaphragm-horn.
I have finished my fiddle-gurdy, unless I decide to put frets on. It looks crude but sounds ok.
I want to make, buy, or scrounge a box around 8"x11"x4 to make a fiddle-gurdy. Is it possible to get the wood that cigar boxes are made from in sheets? Or maybe boxes already made, Darren Dukes recommended wine boxes. I am not sure where to get such
Read more…Just a thought: If a tune for the GHB (Great Highland Bagpipe) does not go to Low G (GHB music notation), which is the lowest note on the chanter, then the tune (without the gracenotes) can be played in the Mixolydian mode on a Mountain dulcimer. T
Read more…If a dulcimer is fretted without the 6 1/2 fret what mode is it? Say you only go seven frets total (octave). I went to a dulcimer fret calculator and did a calculation without the 6 1/2 fret and I got the following sequence T T S T T S T. That scale
Read more…As I go forward making instrument I am wondering when making the dulcimer fret scale do I go with Just Intonation or Chromatic? I think I will be using a noter.
Read more…I have made a xls doc that you input the open string frequency and it gives the frequencies for all seven church modes ("equal tempered scale"). I used the twelfth root of two in my calculations. I will find it useful if I decide to make CBG in a pa
Read more…In the DIY spirit I was wondering what soundboard/sounding board alternatives people have come up with and what results. I was brainstorming what cheap material I could use. My first thought (this shows my mental state) was to take posterboard and pu
Read more…I am itching to make a six string guitar so I would like to buy cheap a guitar without a body basicly. I would take the neck, head, fretboard, and make my own body. I can think of going to a guitar repair shop or yard sales or pawn shops maybe to fin
Read more…I am making an acoustic diddley bow. Instead of a plank I have made a 3"x3"x36" hollow cube. The thickness of the sides is 1/5 inch. The wood is hickory. I'd love some opinions on where/how many/size/shape sound hole(s). whether it will handle the s
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