Author: Donald Rickert
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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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Authentic Cases for 19th Century Musical Instruments
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. The type of case usually used for fiddles and guitars of the mid-19th century is often called a "coffin" case, owing to its resemblance to a coffin. Coffin cases were sometimes used for banjos as well. Here are some examples of some actual cases for period guitars and…
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American Civil War Re-enactor Musicians and Their Instruments
About Re-enacting Recreating every detail of the military aspects of the American Civil War (early to mid 1860s) is more than just a pastime for many thousands of dedicated people known as “Re-enactors.” Re-enactments of encampments and major Civil War battles draw thousands of enthusiastic participants and spectators in U.S. States where the major action…
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The Irish, the Harp and Civil War
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. The minstrel boy to the war is gone,In the ranks of death ye will find him;His father's sword he hath girded on,And his wild harp slung behind him;"Land of Song!" cried the warrior bard,"Tho' all the world betrays thee,One sword, at least, thy rights shall guard,One faithful…
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Irish Traditional Music is a LIVING Tradition!
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Traditional Irish Music is almost a misnomer, as it is such a wonderful LIVING tradition, adopting new instruments all the time. We talk about traditional Irish Bouzoukis and Octave Mandolins. Fact is, it was Andy Irvine, I believe in the Irish band Planxty at the time, who starting…
