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Comment by Will Cornell on April 3, 2013 at 7:17am

I have several pieces of pine in circular cut (found at Michaels or Hobby Lobby) that are about 5" diameter, and several cedar circles that are used to hang on a hanger in a closet to repel moths--these already have the center hole drilled in them and are about 2" in diameter.  Since the trompette and other drone use their own bridges I hope I can concoct at least one of them to be loose fitting to have the "chien" start to bark when needed.   I would want a good "S" shaped crank handle though....the straight one you see in the picture here in my profile shot wore out and the guy who made my hurdy sent a new one gratis that was S shaped--action is much better on those.

Comment by W.M. Peterson on April 3, 2013 at 6:59am

because of the size of the wheel and box i could not install a trompette, a little bit disappointed dough.

maybe i build another one in the future. Actually I'm making a CBukulele at the moment.

That lute model interests me so if there a vid somewhere...  Grtz and happy building ! WMP

Comment by Will Cornell on April 3, 2013 at 5:24am

WM: this is great, gives me some ideas.  I saw a small gurdy from one of my facebook friends (being a hurdy player gets you a lot of other friends worldwide, including some of the greatest--can't say that about playing gtr now can ye?).  It looked like a small lute shaped model, about size of a ukelele.  Still waiting to hear from the guy in Italy that made it.  Question:  does your "gtr/banjo/gurdy" have a trompette/chien, in otherwords, a buzzing bridge that could be turned on/off?  I could not tell if it did by the sound or if that was just the way it always sounded.

Comment by W.M. Peterson on April 3, 2013 at 5:11am

not a cigarbox but winebox kinda Hurdy Gurdy thingy : http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/hurdy-gurdy-winebox-guitar-fidd...

this site helped me a lot : http://dennishavlena.com/fiddlegu.htm

good luck ! chrz WMP

 

Comment by W.M. Peterson on April 3, 2013 at 4:52am

Very Interesting !

 

 

 

 

Comment by Will Cornell on April 3, 2013 at 2:53am

You could tune it anyway desired I guess--I chose CBG just because it seems bigger than a usual violin and more the size of a viola.  I still say anyone who tries that plan should extend the dowel down maybe 6 inches--or have some other support attached to the "foot" to allow it to sit comfortably on their knee or maybe a little shorter for the  neck/ribcage.   2 string would certainly work but you could use a narrower neck...or like a rebab or other Asian instruments, leave off neck entirely.  Indonesian/Arab rebabs have a dowel neck, one long string that goes down one side, wraps around screw a few times, then goes back up the other side, tuned differently.  You get the pitch just by touching the string in certain spots.  Chinese have several instruments like this (all under a general name "huquin").    I may try that approach on a later project. 

Comment by Uncle John on April 3, 2013 at 1:01am

Wow!   I would really like to be able to play some cbg fiddle.   Good advice rendered here.   I wonder how well a person could do on a 2 string?