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Permalink Reply by FerneL on January 4, 2015 at 9:32pm

I'm verry ok, but what about the size, the diapason ?? You will do it blindly ?? i'm ok it's verry simple but i didn't start anything cause i think without the right diapason the instrument won't be tune !! And i think i will play it with violon strings and alto bow, a lot of player do it, cause this horsehair strings are verry expensive !!

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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on January 4, 2015 at 9:31pm

Check this...a Welsh Crwth that I made for a professional theatre production. Quite similar in concept and construction. It's easy to make it look like that...but another matter to get it to work and sound good! 

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/lady-gogo-goch-teaser?commentId...

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Permalink Reply by The Phrygian Kid on January 7, 2015 at 1:08am

now theres a word in dire need of a vowel eh..

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on January 4, 2015 at 10:12pm

ata a guess,that box looks to be around 170 mmx 440 mmx45mm deep,you should be able to scale the build from that,and while you make it,you can keep hunting for the tuneable length scale,just leave some length and trim to suit on the side rails

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on January 5, 2015 at 12:21am

Femel, this video has a link to a few drawings of the sizes for different versions of this instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjWeAKYYIvQ

hope this helps

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on January 5, 2015 at 12:26am

incase the photobucket link isn't working

http://s549.photobucket.com/user/solifer82/media/Kanteleet/Jouhikko...

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Permalink Reply by Ron "Oily" Sprague on January 5, 2015 at 1:48am

That particular one looks to be about 650-700 mm long, about 200 mm wide, and about 50 mm deep. The "arms" look to be roughly 20 mm wide looking down on it. The crossbar holding the tuning pegs looks about 35 mm wide x 50 mm thick x 160 mm long. The finger / hand space looks about 35 mm wide x 50 mm thick x 160 mm long. Build a simple ladder frame with 5 pieces of wood, 3 of them 35mm wide x 50 mm thick x 160 mm long ( these are your crossing pieces, or rungs), and two long pieces, 650 mm long x 50 mm thick x 20 mm wide. Two of the crossing pieces are attached, one at either end, while the third is set between the long arms about 200 mm down from one end. You can screw them together, or make traditional mortise-and-tenon joints, or finger joints, to hold them together. Screws and glue would be faster and easier. Then you need a top and back, from very thin, 2-3mm plywood, or spruce, fir or birch. The top and back can be screwed and / or glued to your frame rails. Simple soundholes and f-holes can be made using a drill and various bits, plus a thin coping saw or X-Acto knife blade. The tailpiece looks to be about 75 mm long x 38 mm wide x 4-5 mm thick. The bridge looks to be about 60 mm long x 35 mm high x 3-4 mm thick; I would think a footed violin bridge would also work well.

Doesn't look too difficult, except for carving the tuning pegs. You could use guitar tuning machines with no problem.

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Permalink Reply by darryl kernaghan on January 5, 2015 at 4:03am

yep oily may be right ,he's referencing the tiles circa 400 mm,i was going 300,either way it is scaleable to build,just need the tuneable scale to finish,plenty of scope for bridge arrangement

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on January 5, 2015 at 4:47am

Check here: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Anglo_Saxon_Lyres/conversations...

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Permalink Reply by robert jones on January 6, 2015 at 1:24am

The Yahoo link is to a PDF plan for a 4 string about the size of the one pictured, measurements in mm.

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Permalink Reply by Cause the Blue rat on January 5, 2015 at 12:22pm

Sorry FerneL. I'm having a real heard time finding information. A really heard time. had one site try sending me to Japanese porn. Another tried to download a browser. One I got all kinds of warnings on my Mac about being a fisher site that's trying to download a virus. Glad I'm on a mac. I can see why your having a hard time finding information.

Going to this photobucket account there is a set of pictures. They follow the progress of someone building one by hand.

http://s549.photobucket.com/user/solifer82/media/Mobiilikuvat/73489...

Did a Bing search for pictures. In all honesty there seems to be no set body style or size to this instrument. There are also two and four string versions. So, like a cigar box guitar, build what you would like.

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Permalink Reply by FerneL on January 6, 2015 at 5:02am

A bi big thanks to everyone !! With all this and i found the exact size  wich are " tuners spaced a comfortable 4 cm apart. Overall length 55 cm, width,15, depth 5 " found on Etsy from silverspoon music (talharpa builders), i think it would be enough to begin to build !! I didn't have the time yet to read all your post and follow all the links but i will right now !! So thank you everyone!!!

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