Tag: 5-string
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Your Amplified Violin Not Working with Effects Processors?: The Problem is With Your Pickup!
Attention!: This is an older post. Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. You will want to see the updated version of this article, entitled Your Amplified Violin Not Working with Effects Processors?: The Problem is With Your Pickup! (UPDATE 11-2017) Introduction Many violinists with an “amplifier-ready” (i.e. has a pickup) instrument try to use effect…
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Don Rickert Musician Shop: Your Source for Unique Bowed and Fretted Instruments and Accessories Ranging from Baroque Period to Today’s Cutting Edge
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in About Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Announcements, Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Banjos, Baroque Instruments, Bows, Cigar Box Fiddles, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Don Rickert Musician Shop, Electric Violins, For Civil War and Other Re-enactors, Guitars, Historic Instrument Replicas, Mandocello, Octave and Baritone Violins, octave mandolin, Old-Time Music, Tenor BanjoDon Rickert Musician Shop (D. Rickert Musical Instruments): Your Source for Unique Bowed and Fretted Instruments and Accessories Ranging from Baroque Period to Today’s Cutting Edge Introduction It is quite clear that we are the place to come for the unique stuff…things you just cannot get at either the corner music store, traditional violin shops or…
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Don Rickert Musician Shop is Unique: Part 1 (Hard to Find Stuff)
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Don Rickert Musician Shop (D. Rickert Musical Instruments) is the place to go for unique instruments that are either very hard or even impossible to find anywhere else. Some examples: Travel / Backpacker Violins and Fiddles We make and sell the finest innovative and ergonomically perfect travel/backpacker violins…
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Demos (video with audio) of the Fat Strad Deux 5-String
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Demos (video with audio) of the Fat Strad Deux 5-String See the D. Rickert Fat Strad III 5-String Violin at the Don Rickert Musician Shop. The Fat Strad Deux 5-String Fiddle is a now called the D. Rickert Fat Strad III 5-String Violin. It uses the same acoustically advanced body as our D.…
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David Thames Demonstrating B-Rex 5-String Octave Viola (aka Chin Cello)
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. The B-Rex II 5-String Octave Viola, discussed and demonstrated on this page, has been replaced by the T-Rex Octave Viola, which is available at the Don Rickert Musician Shop. The new T-Rex is available in either 4-string or 5-string configurations. Links David Thames Demonstrating B-Rex 5-String Octave Viola…
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So You Think You Know about the Banjo in Irish Traditional Music?: Part 1
Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. There are many myths about the banjo in traditional Irish music. It is commonly believed that a special type of tenor banjo (a 17 fret, 4-string banjo tuned in 5ths to G d a e' ), called the "Irish Tenor Banjo", has been part of Traditional Irish Music since at least…
