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The Use of Tuned Porting in Modern Stringed Instruments
Tuned porting has been a crical 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, paricularly stringed instruments, plucked as well as bowed. With stringed musical instruments, porting refers to strategically placing extra…
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Adventurous Muse Store Gets National Business News Coverage!
The Adventurous Muse Store is, of course, the place you go to buy musical instruments by Don Rickert Lutherie and other select manufacturers. Fox Business has a section called Small Business Center. The Small Business Center does a regular column on DETERMINED enterpreneurs. We are featured in today's column, Determined: Reader Round-Up By Brandi Stewart.…
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Trew Ska’ish Project Information
Follow the links below to find out more about the Trew Ska'ish Project, which can be summarized as old Scots fiddle tunes done Ska style…yeah, that's right! You can find the Trew Ska'ish experimental tunes among all of the the other MP3s posted. Previous Posts about Trew Ska'ish: Soldiers Skankin Update Next Trew Ska'ish Tune…
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Soldiers Skankin Update
See ealier post on Soldiers Skankin (Ska version of Soldiers Joy). You would think that we would be done with the bloody tune by now, but lots of other stuff going on (like getting all of Jon Whiddon's art online at Adventure and Whimsy) and finishing up design on 3 new instruments…2 electric violins and…
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Soldiers Skankin’ (Ska version of Soldiers Joy) Almost Ready
Another day or 2! Of course we will have an MP3 that you can download…
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New Ska Version of a Famous Scottish Country Dance
We have lots to bring you up-to-date about, including our new experiment in the Trew Ska'ish project. We'll tell you all about it later, but for now, just enjoy our new medley (downloadable MP3) of the original Skye Collection version of Flowers of Edinburgh (on accordion…those strange chords are right out of the old manuscript…wish…
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All You Rude Boys and Girls (who play or used to play brass or brasswind)
Note: If are not familiar with the term "Rude Boy", you don't know enough about the ska music genre to be interested in this. Trew Ska'ish The Trew Ska'ish Project A topic that pops up from time to time in our posts is the "Trew Ska'ish" project. Basically, this is a whimsical if not totally insane effort to…
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We’re On TV. BOOYA!
Just when we were considering pulling our Cigar Box Fiddle Authentic 1860s Style from our online catalog at Adventurous Muse because ya'll are not ready to pay for the best-sounding and most playable 1860s style cigar box fiddle, we got the news that a video of our instrument is being aired on TV (details below).…
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