Violins

[dnalot]

Did someone say "Spruce", here is a link to a supplier of spruce and 4130 steel in sheet metal strips. Both are very handy for modeling.

Mark T

http://www.aircraftspruce.com/catalog/mepages/4130strips.php

 

[don-tucker]

Hi Don,

I bought your 2007 fiddle on ebay



Changed the tailpiece, replaced the soundpost, made a new bridge. My son plays it - its his favourite at the moment, nice big rich sound.



Keep knocking them out

Im so pleased,i would love to hear it,better still see it being played
Don


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[RonGinger]

This is an interesting old thread. Before I got into metalworking I did a lot of wood work, and built 3 mountain dulcimers and one hammered dulcimer. I never did get any good at playing either of them. Back when I was traveling a lot on business I made a mountain dulcimer scaled to fit on the diagonal of my suitcase. I took it with me to Australia and Japan on one trip. It was a nice break at night to sit and play, but it really didnt sound to good, since it was about 1/3 of the normal length.

Someone back a few notes thought the hammered dulcimer was a native Appalachian instrument- that is not correct- there are variants of it in almost all countries, going back for centuries. An interesting note- it was Henry Fords favorite instrument and in the Ford museum there is (or was when I was last there) a whole room full of them that he collected.