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Akonting

Posted by rob bryon on March 30, 2015 at 11:13pm in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

Hi has anyone actually built an akonting?......Just wondering how to scale it and what position to put the tuners....all the akontings I have seen have amazingly long necks....cheers

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turtlehead April 8, 2015 at 4:27pm

Akontings are cool - I need to build one.

Anybody see the Bela Fleck documentary called Throw Down Your Heart? He goes to Africa to find the origins of the banjo and there are a bunch of great examples of instruments like this. Highly recommended.
Ron "Oily" Sprague April 4, 2015 at 12:44am

Here, measurements and pics:

http://www.dennishavlena.com/akonting.htm
rob bryon April 4, 2015 at 12:39am

thanx for your help guys.....am sure its not critical, as such, the scaling.....trial and error as always.....might use some violin fine tuners.....rob
Bluesheart April 3, 2015 at 4:37pm

I bet it is not critical, just make sure you can get strings long enough, like weed wacker line.
john mackay March 31, 2015 at 7:17am

never seen or heard of them till now.

canny instrument and sound good to.

heres a video clip of one.

https://youtu.be/lzt0v9roU6g

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