Great article about late legendary luthier Carleen Hutchins: http://twistedphysics.typepad.com/cocktail_party_physics/2009/09/all-in-the-family.html
I'm planning to really bite into the zanfona project as soon as my motorbike is fixed. We pulled the transmission last weekend, so hopefully it'll be sorted soon.
Oct 6, 2009
Aug 18, 2009
Neil Brook's (of the cotton-changing video) website:
http://www.hurdy-gurdy.org.uk/He's built a replica of the instrument Bosch painted:
He indicates that a smaller wheel makes a "reasonable tone" easier to achieve.
Aug 17, 2009
Dannis Havlena, of the $20 hurdy-gurdy, has made some other hurdy-gurdies as well. This "fiddle-gurdy" looks interesting. Maybe I'll start with that instead of the $20 hurdy-gurdy so I can figure out how to get the wheel to sound good first, then add a keybox later on.
(from dennishavlena.com)
I've been looking at tools, and I'm hoping to get away with what's available at the student machine shop in Cory Hall. There's a scroll saw there, and I think a lathe. Definitely a drill press. Fortunately, hurdy-gurdies cost thousands of dollars, so I can safely spend a lot on tools before I'm into it-would-have-been-cheaper-to-just-buy-one territory.
The video I posted of Andrey Vinogradov playing the zanfona is amazing, and still blows me away every time I hear it, but there's more going on in the sound there than just the zanfona. I think this is probably a lot closer to what his instrument actually sounds like:
Jul 30, 2009
I'm now the proud owner of Die Drehleier: Feinabstimmung und Wartung or The Hurdy-Gurdy: Adjustment and Maintenance. I feel like it would go well with The Spoking Word and How to Avoid Huge Ships in an obscure books collection. I bought it from Dusty Strings music shop in Seattle, on the recommendation of Olympic Musical Instruments. It got here right quick.
The next step is to find some cheap or, preferably, free wood and have a go at the $20 hurdy-gurdy.
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