Rebec

Rebec The videos below shows the violin rebec, and you can hear 2 improvisations by Marion Zammarchi:  Violin rebec: for this instrument I used the same dimensions as the ones of a violin, all the position indicators are the same. Indeed, I noticed that lots of violon players don’t…

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Marine trumpet

Marine trumpet The name of this instrument is kind of problematic! How is it possible to give it the name of  “trumpet” whereas it’s a stringed instrument? Why would we call it “marine” whereas it has no relationship with sailing? Most of the time you find the following explanation about…

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Hurdy-gurdy trumpet

Hurdy-gurdy marine trumpet The hurdy-gurdy marine trumpet was created by Philippe Berne & Dominique Engles. This instrument was first shown at the Château d’Ars meetings in St Chartier, July 11-14 2015…

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Bowed citol

Bowed citol (or moorish) Ci-dessous 2 vidéos de l’atelier ainsi qu’une vidéo plutôt sympa de Guillaume Levy sur une de mes maurache et citole à archet !  A new soundboard allowed me to make this new 3-string bowed citol, and the model with 4 sympathetic strings on a second…

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