Tag: Don Rickert
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The Mezzo Violin: One Way to Achieve Deeper Timbre with Outstanding Projection
Many players of violins, especially fiddlers, spend much effort dreaming about and seeking instruments that, while tuned the same (for a fiddler, this is often something different than the standard G3 D4 A4 E5) but with a less shrill, indeed darker, timbre, with excellent sonority. As Darol Anger colorfully put it, many fiddlers… "…tire of…
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D. Rickert Musical Instruments Will Be a Vendor at Hoppin’ John 2022.
D. Rickert Musical Instruments will be showing one of its Violoncellos da Spalla at an upcoming festival in the Southeastern US. D. Rickert Musical Instruments (bowed strings), together with its partner, Rickert and Hale, Luthiers (mandolin family and guitars), will once again be showing finished and in progress instruments at the 2022 Hoppin’ John Old…
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One Last Opportunity to Own a Violoncello da Spalla Standard Model.
This article announces what amounts to discontinuation of the Standard Model Violoncello da Spalla and the introduction of the Standard Model Plus. That being said, as of today 9-9-2022, there are still two Standard Models, which cost just under $10,000, available. one of these is about 2/3 complete, so there would not be too long…
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Announcing the NEW Standard Plus Model Violoncello da Spalla by Don Rickert
If you have decided to acquire a professional level violoncello da spalla, you should pay attention to this! Email: don@donrickertdesign.com Phone: 706-896-0909 Effective May 30, 2022, we are offering the NEW Violoncello da Spalla Standard Plus Model. This new model supersedes its predecessor, which was called the “Standard Model”. This new instrument has the same…
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