Mandola 8-string Première vidéo ci-dessous : nouvelle présentation de la famille mandoline mandole bouzouki cistre sazouk, 7 modèles ! Tuning GDAE, length scale 540 mm. See pictures below, a mandola with a soundboard made of spruce, back and sides made of apple-tree wood, neck made of rowan wood, fingerboard made…
Mandolin Première vidéo ci-dessous : nouvelle présentation de la famille mandoline mandole bouzouki cistre sazouk, 7 modèles ! This instrument’s scale is between a tenor mandolin and the alto mandolin. The technology of guitar strings allows to get both tunings on a single instrument: CGDA or GDAE tuning. Ci-dessous,…
Cello Sazouk I just felt like enlarging the range of the bouzoukis and created a “sazouk” (a combination of the Turkish saz and the Greek bouzouki), on whick a low C string could be put like on a cello! As for me, I play it in CGDG tuning, whick gives…
Bowed viol The scale length is the same as the one of a tenor violon. The body is made of solid alder and spruce veneer as for the soundboard and maple for the back. In the video, you can see the bowed viol and its first 8-string model: Among the…
5-string bowed viol Modèle ci-dessous (bois naturel ou version teintée) : accord DGDGD, cordes de dessus de viole, compatible boyau, table, fond, éclisse et manche en noyer, touche et cordier en alisier teinté, chevilles Pedheds, micro Piezzo interne. The model shown below is tuned DGDGD, the soundboard is made…
Cello The instrument is shown in the first video, and Fabienne Condi played a small cello tune in the second one. The soundboard is made of spruce, the back and the sides are made of maple, the neck is made of apple-tree wood, the fingerboard is made of service tree…
Cello di borbone It’s a 16-string cello, the soundboard is made of spruce, the back and the sides are made of cherry-tree wood, the neck is made of maple, the fingerboard is made of rosewood, there are fine tuned Wittner tuning machines, harpsichord tuning pegs for the sympathetic strings.
Lyra viol I got inspired by various instruments (Indian ones, for example) and that’s how I could make this “lyra viol” which is a combination of a bowed viol, of a lyra and a banjo… I’ll try to find a musician (a true one!) to make a better demo…
Pochette violin and its alto version The pochette violin is made of curly walnut wood monoxyl, the fingerboard is made of boxwood, there’s a piezo mic. Alto model (viola version): the soundboard is made of spruce, service tree monoxyl, and there’s an active electrostatic mic.
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…
