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Comment by the anonymous pick on May 26, 2015 at 2:20pm

actually  ,   the    amp  boards  i  used to  use  , i   cant get   anymore  :-( 

havent  really  found  an  equilivant  since  ,  

  i  havent  tried gitty's  kit  ,  or  guitar   fuel  ,   maybe  someone else that  has  tried them  can    pop  in  here  .

  or  , wes carl  may be able to  help advise  . 

Comment by Dave Lynas on May 26, 2015 at 2:14pm

Sounds like a fun experiment. Picks into internal amps and speakers. He,d know a good kit. I,ll bet the volume went up with that big sound hole even without an amp.

Comment by Jim Morris on May 26, 2015 at 12:50pm

Oh yeah, any recommendations for an inexpensive, easy kit would be appreciated. Maybe one from Gitty?

Comment by Jim Morris on May 26, 2015 at 12:49pm

Thanks wes and pick. It would be my first attempt at an amp so I might try one not built into a fiddle first.

Comment by the anonymous pick on May 26, 2015 at 3:46am

oh  ..  amp  ..     =  fun  ;-)

Comment by Jim Morris on May 26, 2015 at 12:32am

Thanks Dave. It's still an open hole but pick is sending me a small speaker cover that I'll screw on there. It sort got me thinking to put a speaker and a 2w amp in there as an experiment. I'll have to think about that.

Comment by Dave Lynas on May 25, 2015 at 3:44pm

Very nice fix Jim. What became of the big access hole in the back? Did it remain a sound hole?

Comment by Clock The Wolf on May 17, 2015 at 4:40am

An frustrating fiddle? A fuddle?

Maybe there is an bugg in it!

Danged termites......

Comment by Jim Morris on May 17, 2015 at 1:56am

Thanks again Bug for all the info. I started looking at some of the links and charts.It makes me realize I don't know what the heck I'm doing but I keep doing it anyway. Now back to my healing balls.

Comment by Jim Morris on May 17, 2015 at 1:47am

Wow! That's a lot of interesting stuff Bug and SJ. I appreciate everyone's input here. I don't take a mystic approach to this stuff but wood does have it's ow n character and yes, it's own life even though it long ago it sacrificed it's life for music a long time ago. This is my 16th fiddle and early on I did research on sound posts and bass bars. I always use them on CB fiddles and, like this one, self made boxes. Many hundreds of years of violin making have pretty much standardized what works on these instruments and what I'm doing is breaking a lot of those rules and traditions and still trying to make a nice sounding instrument. For me it's kind of fun to experiment and thumb my nose at "luthiers" who feel there's only one way to do this.
Wow! A bell museum in France? I must get a passport! Anyway I just posted a vid playing this fiddle and then I'm on to the next.

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