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Baroque Pochettes and Modern Travel Violins at the Don Rickert Musician Shop (Part 1 of 2 Parts): Pochettes

May 2, 2015

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in Announcements, Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Baroque Instruments, Bows, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Don Rickert Musician Shop, Historic Instrument Replicas

Attention!: We have more recent articles about Travel Violins. Better still – See the Travel and Backpacker Fiddle category at the Don Rickert Musician Shop. If it is Baroque pochettes, violins or violoncellos da spalla you want to see, go to the Baroque Instruments Category at the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Introduction D. Rickert Musical…

Don Rickert Musician Shop is Unique: Part 2 (Every Sale a Consulting Engagement)

Feb 25, 2015

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Donald Rickert

in About Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Don Rickert Musician Shop, For Civil War and Other Re-enactors, Gut Strings, Historic Instrument Replicas, Old-Time Music

Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. For Don Rickert Musician Shop (D. Rickert Musical Instruments), every sale of a premium instrument is a consulting engagement, focused getting the setup exactly right. Part of the purchase of a new violin is customer specification of stringing and accessories appropriate for one of a number of historic…

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…

Introducing the New Don Rickert Musician Shop

Feb 19, 2015

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Donald Rickert

in Announcements, Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Baroque Instruments, Bows, Don Rickert Musician Shop, Historic Instrument Replicas, Low-Pitched Instruments, Octave and Baritone Violins, Old-Time Music, Tenor Banjo

The Don Rickert Musician Shop is the new online retail face of Don Rickert Musical Instruments, premiere designer and maker of innovative custom and historic musical instruments. Since starting our musical instruments enterprise in 2007, we have dealt primarily in those of the bowed variety (e.g. violins, fiddles and related instruments such as octave fiddles). We…

David Thames Demonstrating B-Rex 5-String Octave Viola (aka Chin Cello)

Sep 29, 2014

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Donald Rickert

in 5-String Violins and Fiddles, Announcements, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Don Rickert Musician Shop, Low-Pitched Instruments, Octave and Baritone Violins, Video and Sound Demos

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…

Introducing the Rickert Violoncella da Spalla Model 16.5

May 21, 2014

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Donald Rickert

in Announcements, Baroque Instruments, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Don Rickert Musician Shop, Violoncello da Spalla

Attention!: This is an older post about a model of violoncello da spalla that we no longer make on a regular basis. If you wish to learn more or buy one of our current models, our direct phone number in the U.S. is 1-706-896-0909. Our email is don@donrickertdesign.com. You can also learn more or buy…

Measurements for Determining Correct Violin/Fiddle or Viola Size

Apr 25, 2014

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Donald Rickert

in Announcements, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Don Rickert Musician Shop

Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Related article: Helping People with Special Needs Realize Their Musical Goals: Part 1 of 2 Introduction Such measurements for determining appropriately sized violins and violas for children are available many places on the Internet. The measurements and test tasks we describe below are geared towards the adult novice or…

Why Wittner Fine-Tune Planetary Pegs are a Good Idea

Aug 7, 2013

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Donald Rickert

in Don Rickert Musical Instruments, For Civil War and Other Re-enactors, Historic Instrument Replicas, Observations and Opinion, Strings, Fittings and Accessories

Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Many people have cold feet about installing internally-geared tuning pegs on their violins or fiddles. We think that it has to do with the fact that most of us envision a planetary-geared violin peg as heavy and "fake" looking. Nothing could be further from the truth. There are…

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…

Take-Apart Travel Violin by Don Rickert Design

Aug 6, 2013

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Donald Rickert

in Backpacker Violins and Pochettes, Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Rickert Instruments (Concepts), Rickert Instruments (Past)

Sometimes you just need to have a travel violin or backpacker fiddle that can be quickly assembled and disassembled and packed into a small box (15" x 9" x 3" deep). By quickly, we mean less than 5 minutes. Well, here it is, the new Take-Apart Travel Violin by Don Rickert Design. And there is…

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