Hello, I've just joined here and i am curious. are there any makers on this list? I've been making a Vielle for a few years now between the instruments I usually make. I have some interesting technical things to share. My usual instrument are Zooks and guitars. I've been at this for 22 years now and have met a few makers quite a while in the past but I'm curious...
> Hello, I've just joined here and i am curious. are there any makers on > this list? I've been making a Vielle for a few years now between the > instruments I usually make. I have some interesting technical things to > share. My usual instrument are Zooks and guitars. I've been at this for > 22 years now and have met a few makers quite a while in the past but I'm > curious...
> Thanks > Dave
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> Hello, I've just joined here and i am curious. are there any makers on > this list? I've been making a Vielle for a few years now between the > instruments I usually make. I have some interesting technical things to > share. My usual instrument are Zooks and guitars. I've been at this for > 22 years now and have met a few makers quite a while in the past but I'm > curious...
> Thanks > Dave
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I know the Hackman's. I met them in 1995 at Tacoma. We all attended a peg making workshop with Eric Meyer. I learned a lot from Eric and have made hundreds of pegs since. Mostly for lutes and citterns and fiddles! Is there any way to post photos? Also, I have some new, I think, ideas. I'd like to share them. since I have resumed making this 'gurdy, I anticipate finishing it up within six months.
Dave Bucher, Citeraro. The Golden Wood Stringed Musical Instruments.
We really like new ideas and find that without them nothing new happens. On the other hand tradition usually has filtered most of the bad ideas and has settled on the tested and true. Seems that we are blessed with new materials and abilities in our day that old builders did not have and I think that we should use every opportunity within reason to make our HG's better.
Please post your ideas and pictures for comment but I can't guarantee that the builders will always offer input as we are a very busy lot and don't always check the current threads with intent to respond.
All the best Mel
________________________________ From: California Dave <glidero...@yahoo.com> To: hurdygurdy@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 12:31 AM Subject: Re: [HG-new] Any makers?
I know the Hackman's. I met them in 1995 at Tacoma. We all attended a peg making workshop with Eric Meyer. I learned a lot from Eric and have made hundreds of pegs since. Mostly for lutes and citterns and fiddles! Is there any way to post photos? Also, I have some new, I think, ideas. I'd like to share them. since I have resumed making this 'gurdy, I anticipate finishing it up within six months.
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Oh, I am a zook specialist and began that journey with my interest in early citterns, which were wide spread and now are just a curiosity. I discovered the Irish bouzouki and its shorter scale 10 and 12 stringed brother the Cittern, which I have called CBOM or, more simply, the Zook. I discovered that this instrument could use a lot of innovation. Since its incept-date is some time in late sixties-early seventies, depending on who's talking, it has not become chiseled in stone. My instruments are designed carefully to improve on qualities that I think most zooks lack. Now the Vielle is also an early instrument that, in my opinion, demands preservation of its curiously quaint status as a beautiful "boat of a thousand years" that evolved when musical instrument-tech, is you will, was young! Tuning machines and plywood, delrin bearings and sheet aluminum visible are not too much of what I'm interested in. My ideas will work but I simply wonder if anyone else, recently, has thought of them!
> Oh, I am a zook specialist and began that journey with my interest in > early citterns, which were wide spread and now are just a curiosity. I > discovered the Irish bouzouki and its shorter scale 10 and 12 stringed > brother the Cittern, which I have called CBOM or, more simply, the Zook. I > discovered that this instrument could use a lot of innovation. Since its > incept-date is some time in late sixties-early seventies, depending on > who's talking, it has not become chiseled in stone. My instruments are > designed carefully to improve on qualities that I think most zooks lack. > Now the Vielle is also an early instrument that, in my opinion, demands > preservation of its curiously quaint status as a beautiful "boat of a > thousand years" that evolved when musical instrument-tech, is you will, was > young! Tuning machines and plywood, delrin bearings and sheet aluminum > visible are not too much of what I'm interested in. My ideas will work but > I simply wonder if anyone else, recently, has thought of them!
> Dave Bucher, citeraro. > The Golden Wood
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pardon my ignorance, but what is a Zook? Are you referring to the Bouzouki?. And exactly what kind of improvements do you wish to make to Hurdy Gurdies?
thx
Bruno On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Augusto de Ornellas Abreu <
augusto.ornel...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, what are these ideas of yours? How can we know if anyone here thought > of them if only you know about them, specifically?
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 5:17 PM, California Dave <glidero...@yahoo.com>wrote:
>> Oh, I am a zook specialist and began that journey with my interest in >> early citterns, which were wide spread and now are just a curiosity. I >> discovered the Irish bouzouki and its shorter scale 10 and 12 stringed >> brother the Cittern, which I have called CBOM or, more simply, the Zook. I >> discovered that this instrument could use a lot of innovation. Since its >> incept-date is some time in late sixties-early seventies, depending on >> who's talking, it has not become chiseled in stone. My instruments are >> designed carefully to improve on qualities that I think most zooks lack. >> Now the Vielle is also an early instrument that, in my opinion, demands >> preservation of its curiously quaint status as a beautiful "boat of a >> thousand years" that evolved when musical instrument-tech, is you will, was >> young! Tuning machines and plywood, delrin bearings and sheet aluminum >> visible are not too much of what I'm interested in. My ideas will work but >> I simply wonder if anyone else, recently, has thought of them!
>> Dave Bucher, citeraro. >> The Golden Wood
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Well, we (some of us, usually the less reverent!) call Irish style bouzouki's "Zooks" or, as I call them in my shop, CBOM. Cittern, Bouzouki and Octave Mandolin! CBOMs or Zooks, are my specialty and I've made a lot of them. I also make lutes off and on. Using one of my a large bodied lute "boats", I began making a Hurdy Gurdy after years of gathering material. This project is ongoing and entirely of my own design with bits and pieces from here and there coupled with some engineering of my own. Also some things to watch out for. My friend Gerald Trimble played one professionally for a while, one he had made for him, a guitar-bodied one and its wheel was out of true. So that's something I'm avoiding. I will be providing web address for photos of this project and sharing these ideas soon. Since I am a decorative artist and inlay specialist, this device is also a presentation grade instrument.
Dave Bucher, citteraro. The Golden Wood Stringed Musical Instruments
Hello to both of you! Thanks for the good words. And my health? I'm sick, that's for sure but I am getting better. Better enough to say that I am "working" again though I am still disabled as regards my long time career of custom home construction. No more of that! the studio I began October 1, 2006, is now enclosed, partially fitted out and I am using it. What a space! I can work out there for all hours playing music and running tools! Nothing better. The wizards cave!
