Author: Donald Rickert
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Authentic Early 20th Century Old-Time Fiddle Setup
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Note: Listed price is for the initial deposit, which includes includes gut string by one of several Master String Makers specializing in gut strings AND special offers on Master Bows. We will contact you about additional required work for the conversion, which is generally in the $200 – $300 range. What…
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Authentic mid to late 19th Century Fiddle Setup (Civil War era and later)
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Note: Listed price is for the initial deposit, which includes includes gut strings by one of several Master String Makers specializing in gut strings AND special offers on Master Bows . We will contact you about additional required work for the conversion, which is generally in the $200…
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Authentic late 18th Century to Mid-19th Century Fiddle Setup
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Note: Listed price is for the initial deposit, which includes includes gut strings by one of several Master String Makers specializing in gut strings AND special offers on Master Bows . We will contact you about additional required work for the conversion, which is generally in the $200 – $300…
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Gut Fiddle Strings for Historic Period Retro-Setup
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Note: Listed Price is an average only. The price of the strings, which usually ranges from $85 to $120 is based on the unique string requirements for your instrument. We determine these string requirements during initial setup of your instrument. We use EXTREMELY high-quality strings, depending on the…
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Don Rickert Musical Instruments Does Fiddle Retro-Setup to any Post-Baroque Period
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. The violin goes back about 400 years. The Post-Baroque or Modern violin is about 250 years old. Many (actually most) Baroque Violins, such as those made by the well-known masters (Stradivari, Gaurneri, Amati…) were converted to Modern Violins, with their longer, angled-back necks, bridges more like the kind…
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Contact Information: Don Rickert Musical Instruments
Company Official Identifications: Wiederholt & Rickert Partners, LLC (a Georgia Limited Liability Corporation)DBA Don Rickert Research & Design™ (www.DonRickertDesign.com)DBA Don Rickert Musical Instruments™ (www.RickertMusicalInstruments.com Online Store: Don Rickert Musician Shop (www.DonRickertMusicianShop.com) Blogs: Don Rickert Musical Instruments (www.RickertMusicalInstruments.com) (this site) Don Rickert Musician Shop: Latest News (www.DonRickertMuscianShop.com/blog) Facebook: Business Page: D. Rickert Musical Instruments (www.Facebook.com/DonRickertMusicianShop) Owner's Personal Page:…
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Why Wittner Fine-Tune Planetary Pegs are a Good Idea
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Many people have cold feet about installing internally-geared tuning pegs on their violins or fiddles. We think that it has to do with the fact that most of us envision a planetary-geared violin peg as heavy and "fake" looking. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are…
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The Use of Tuned Porting in Modern Stringed Instruments
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Tuned porting has been a critical aspect of audio system speaker enclosure design for many years. Only recently, has the idea of porting beyond what is provided by the sound holes, been considered in the design of musical instruments, particularly stringed instruments, plucked as well as bowed. With stringed musical…
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Reference Guides for Fiddlers
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. There are a number of low-cost and even free references that can be downloaded from the Adventurous Muse Store. FREE guide to using the "Circle of 5ths" to form modal chords (for fiddle, octave violin, 5-string fiddle and viola) available NOW: Link to Using the Circle of 5ths…
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Solving the “how do you hold this thing” problem with historic pochettes
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. We sell an 18th type pochette (pocket fiddle) under the Neil Gow Pochette and Thomas Jefferson Pochette names, depending on the sales venue. This instrument is EXTREMELY popular, especially among our customer/friends in Japan. The original instruments on which our replica is based, as with all historic pochettes,…
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