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Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Makers of Violoncellos da Spalla and Other Fine Bowed Instruments

Dec 21, 2021

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Donald Rickert

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For more information about us, including our online store, the Don Rickert Musician Shop, see Introducing the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Don Rickert Musical Instruments is a 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.…
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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Donald Rickert

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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 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…
A Regular Fiddle with the Innovative Tailpiece-Chin Rest Combo

Apr 24, 2011

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Donald Rickert

in Backpacker Violins and Pochettes

Introduction As part of Don Rickert Lutherie's search for the perfect chin rest for our backpacker fiddles and travel fiddles, particularly our 2-inch wide Mountaineer Backpacker Fiddle, we found a unique accessory from the innovative Dov Schmidt, which combines the function of the tailpiece AND the chin rest. To our amazement, this Tailpiece-Chinrest Combo works extremely…
A Chin Rest for Fiddlers Who Do Not Use Chin Rests

Apr 24, 2011

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Donald Rickert

in Observations and Opinion

In our very recent article, The Solution to the Chin Rest Problem on Backpacker Violins and Fiddles, I described Don Rickert Lutherie's quest for the solution to the chin rest problem with our backpacker and travel violins and fiddles. See that article for the details. The bottom line is that we have found a tailpiece-chin…
The Solution to the Chin Rest Problem on Backpacker Violins and Fiddles

Apr 22, 2011

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Donald Rickert

in Backpacker Violins and Pochettes

Our continuous improvement efforts related to the Backpacker and Travel Fiddles by Don Rickert Lutherie (the Neil Gow 21C2 Travel Violin, the NEW Neil Gow 22C Travel Violin, Adventurer IId Travel Violin and Mountaineer Backpacker Fiddle) has kept us on a relentless search for a truly usable chin rest solution. Customers who otherwise love these small, durable and sonorous instruments have…
Tattooed Fiddles by Don Rickert Design

Mar 22, 2011

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Donald Rickert

in Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Historic Instrument Replicas, Historic Makers and Instruments, Rickert Instruments (Concepts), Rickert Instruments (Past)

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

in Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Rickert Instruments (Concepts), Rickert Instruments (Past)

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…
The William Sidney Mount Historic 1852 “Cradle of Harmony” Violin

Mar 1, 2011

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Donald Rickert

in Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Historic Instrument Replicas, Historic Makers and Instruments

The 1852 guitar shaped version of the "Cradle of Harmony" violin by American artist and inventor, William Sidney Mount, is very significant to Don Rickert Lutherie. The shape, bent-plate convex top and bent concave back of this unique violin became important design elements in our first product offerings (then under the name Rickert & Ringholz),…