Tag: Don Rickert
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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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Gut Fiddle Strings: Let the Truth Overcome Your Fear!
Metal wound strings and modern synthetic core strings (e.g. Dr. Thomastik) are wonderful for the modern fiddler, regardless of the type of music he or she is playing. The good ones, such as D'Addario Helicores and Infeld Super-Flexible rope core strings, sound great, are easy on the fingers (and your instrument) and stay in tune. Other…
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Next Trew Ska’ish Tune to Feature a Rickert Neil Gow 21C Travel Violin
The growing number of people who are following the progress of our insane Trew Ska'ish project on FaceBook and iLike will love the next one…Soldier's Joy done as a primarily electronic Ska rendition. It will feature an actual Neil Gow 21C Travel Violin, as well as a Dulcijo (diatonic banjo) by Michael Fox, both played…
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Ska, Synthesizers, Traditional Music and the Folk Establishment
Interesting discussion thread on these topics and more, including commentary by Friends (no, not us) on the institutions that comprise the Traditional Music and Country Dance Establisment on Don Rickert's Facebook Wall. Is the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) stuck in a time warp? Read opinion on this as well.
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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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TV Coverage of Musical Instruments by Don Rickert Design Update
Several weeks ago we submitted posts on two California-based cable providers (SureWest and KAXT-1.8) showing a video on the Cigar Box Fiddle Authentic 1860s Style from Don Rickert Design Lutherie. In the video,Troy Parker is doing the playing, accompanied by Michael Fox on diatonic banjo, which is kind of a cross between a banjo and dulcimer (marketed as…
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More TV Coverage of Don Rickert Design
Another California-based cable channel has picked up the video on the Cigar Box Fiddle Authentic 1860s Style from Don Rickert Design Lutherie. Further, the first channel SureWest, has expanded its calendar of showings. For those who missed our last post, Troy Parker is doing the playing, accompanied by Michael Fox on diatonic banjo, which is kind of…
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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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Check with Your Significant Other First!
The first words of the Adventurous Muse website and if you click on the “About Us" link on the Adventurous Muse online store is that the Adventurous Muse, owned by Don Rickert Design, is NOT for sissies, but for the adventurous musicians of the world, for whom having the most innovative instruments for pursuing their…
