BOUZOUKIS, MANDOLAS, MANDOLINS Various ways of playing and various sounds to discover with the bouzouki or the “sazouk” (instrument mixing bouzouki and saz), mandola and its medieval range, cittern, mandolin, bowed-mandola or the eden M model.
BOWED STRINGS Several original bowed strings models are made in the workshop, from the « pochette » to the cello, rebecs, viol, citol and bowed mandola, hurdy-gurdy, viola de gamba, viol bass, treble viol, lyra-viol, cello di borbone, arpeggione, yayli tanbur, morin khuur, rebab, erhu and marine trumpets! Also look…
“EDEN” MODELS The “Eden” range brings together all the bowed instruments with this way of playing; the instrument is played with a strap and you stand as you play it. This range is made of Eden B (bass), G (guitar), M (mandola), C (cello), A (alto), F (fiddle). Not including…
CONE-BASED INSTRUMENTS My work on cone vibrations began a couple of years ago. I made a few plucked string instruments with this very characteristic sound, and then, I discovered that it was possible to use the cone for bowed string instruments… A whole new world opened up to me! The…
OTHER STRINGS In this section, there’s a small range of various original string instruments that might not be included in the big families of guitars, bass, bouzoukis or mandolas. For example, 10-string harp, “shamy” harp, tiple, dulcimer, ukulele and sun ukulele, sun-lyre, lute, citol or bowed citol, bouzouki-guitar, “manteur”, “bluesheep”,…
SMALL PERCUSSIONS Original small percussions made in the instrument workshop of Philippe Berne: musical arc, musical shell, spoon, clave, “clavero”, finger clave, josefa, “plank to hit”, strings drum, stompbox, double-box and stickbow!
THE NINE MOONS 2015… It’s been 17 years, dammit! It’s been 17 years since the workshop was created, 20 years since the first guitar was made and still enjoying working as much, still having the same desire to discover new possibilities, so… thanks Life! The work is here, along with…
