Tag: pochette

Don Rickert Musician Shop: Your Source for Unique Bowed and Fretted Instruments and Accessories Ranging from Baroque Period to Today’s Cutting Edge

Apr 23, 2015

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Don 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…
Don Rickert Musician Shop is Unique: Part 1 (Hard to Find Stuff)

Feb 25, 2015

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Donald Rickert

in 5-String Violins and Fiddles, About Don Rickert Musical Instruments, About the website, Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Cigar Box Fiddles, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Don Rickert Musician Shop, Octave and Baritone Violins, Tertis Violas

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…
Solving the “how do you hold this thing” problem with historic pochettes

Aug 6, 2013

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Donald Rickert

in Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Historic Instrument Replicas, Observations and Opinion

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,…
The Violin Was Perfected 300 Years Ago…Hogwash!

Aug 6, 2013

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Donald Rickert

in Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Historic Makers and Instruments, Observations and Opinion

Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Recently I had been looking at a lot of violin and fiddle related websites and blogs and have seen far too many assertions that the violin was perfected centuries ago. This ranks up there on the idiocy scale as the statement by the Director of the U.S. Patent…
Video of Dr. Rickert Installing Pure Gut Strings: UPDATE

Jun 12, 2011

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Donald Rickert

in Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Gut Strings, Video and Sound Demos

Yesterday (Saturday, June 11) we shot most of the video of Dr. Rickert of Don Rickert Design installing 18th Century type gut strings (copper wound g string and unwound pure gut d', a' and e' strings) on a an 1780s style pochette. We were also shooting video for a demonstration of the use of basso continuo fiddle accompaniment using our new…
Video of Dr. Rickert Installing Pure Gut Strings on a Pochette

Jun 10, 2011

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Donald Rickert

in Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Gut Strings

On Saturday, June 11, we will be shooting video of Dr. Rickert of Don Rickert Design installing 18th Century type gut strings (copper wound g string and unwound pure gut d', a' and e' strings) on a short bodied (but 4/4 playable scale) pochette. The principles apply to the installation of gut strings on any fiddle. The demonstration will…
Pochettes, Backpacker Fiddles and Ergonomics: A Short Primer

Apr 11, 2011

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Donald Rickert

in Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Observations and Opinion

What is a Pochette? A pochette was a violin-like instrument of the 17th and 18th Centuries that was small enough in girth to fit into a longish sheath sewn into one's coat. The sheath came to be known by the instrument's name: "pochette". This is where the modern English word "pocket" comes from. Pochettes were…
Tattooed Fiddles by Don Rickert Design

Mar 22, 2011

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Donald Rickert

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Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Do you want a "full body suit"…not on you, but for your violin or fiddle? We have not figured out fiddle body piercing yet, but we are working on it. Read on… The decoration of musical instruments has been done for hundreds of years. Such decoration has included inlay work of…
Tatooed Violins and Fiddles (New Photo Albums)

Mar 21, 2011

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Donald Rickert

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Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Don Rickert Lutherie is gearing up to offer custom "tatooing", more properly called "rosing" or inkwork decoration for a number of our musical instruments. This service will be available via our Adventurous Muse Store. We will have a proper article about what we are doing and the history behind…