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Patrick_Woolery Approved
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Well, a rebec is a medieval fiddle, so I reckon it belongs under the fiddle topic. This was one of my major projects this past summer. Enjoy! http://www.geocities.com/scalaska1/rebec1.html -Patrick
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Tim3finger Approved 
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Patrick That is a very cool looking instrument! Great pictures!. When can we hear it? Tim
____________________ Tim "Trying to give back a little of what I've been given" |
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Patrick_Woolery Approved
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If you are ever in Fairbanks, you are welcome to play it yourself. Otherwise, I will have to learn how to record and make available some sort of recording of it. I don't even know how to put up a web page and I have to wait for my wonderful, long-suffering wife to do it for me! I'm not really likely to make a recording unless there's a super-simple way to do it. -Patrick
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Philj200 Approved 
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Geocities seems to be ignoring my requests to see your creation. I'll try from another computer later on. If you ever get to NYC, visit the Metropolian Museum's musical instrument wing. They have a number of instruments like this. Some are playable and they have concerts from time to time.
____________________ My MP3 Section: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ My Myspace area: http://myspace.com/philj200 |
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banjo brad Super Moderator 
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Phil- He must be getting popular, the site says he's exceeded his bandwidth (and its only the 9th of the month!). Patrick - maybe you need to look into a hosting site with more bandwidth. Bravenet seems to have a pretty liberal free-hosting limit. I actually spend some money on a domain name and am working at trying to set up my webpage there. Right now the domain auto-refers to my ISP's free page. Brad Last edited on Fri Feb 9th, 2007 09:09 pm by banjo brad ____________________ ezFolk Help Brad Prickly Pear Music Banjo Brad's ezFolk page TOTMC |
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TheBloodyIrish Approved
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I saw this a day ago. The rebec is very nice-looking. It is a shame you could not get much resonate from it, though. While Geocities is a commonly used host, it is not a good free one at that. They run out of bandwidth within a few hours sometimes with only one to ten visitors.
____________________ Currently learning: D-tuned Tin Whistle Projects: Tin-Can Banjo, Goatskin Banjo, Ugly Stick Dream Instruments: Banjo, Fiddle, Lambeg, Lap Guitar, Mountain Dulcimer |
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Philj200 Approved
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Drat, got as far as the stacked section about to be shaped when the feed froze. Tried to refresh and was locked out. As they said when people rocked out with rebecs, "Forsooth, narrow bandwithith suckith."
____________________ My MP3 Section: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ My Myspace area: http://myspace.com/philj200 |
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HowlinHobbit Approved 
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banjo brad wrote: you need to look into a hosting site with more bandwidth. I highly recommend SeaNic.net. Their basic plan (on Linux hosts) is under $4/month -- about $47/year. For that you get a lot of bandwidth, lots of space, more email addresses than you probably need  and your domain name comes with the price (or the transfer of your domain name if you've already got one). Lots of other goodies too.The best part is their customer service is top notch. I've never sent them an email that took them longer than 24 hours to see to. A couple times I've been gotten back to within an hour or so, not with an "auto-response," but with a real email saying how my problem has already been fixed. I don't get anything for recommending them (though I've recently found out I can sign up and get bonuses to my account if I send 'em business... I've just been too lazy to do it!). HH
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Philj200 Approved
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Finally was able to read the article to the end. And it was worth the wait. Some questions if you please: Shaping the interior: Would lathe guages and a mallet been a faster option? Or a wood carver's guage? I have a small set. Each one is no more five inches long and fits the palm of my hand well. Really handy for confind places. The pile of dumbells cracked me up. I use the same thing. I've found that squared off weights work better. They don't roll away and you can wedge them into place. How thick is the completed bowl? Did you consider staining alternating stages differently. Light/dark/light/dark? Your bow design is ingenious. But now that the project is complete, has the bow stringing stood up? Or has been too strong and damaged the instrument's strings? Will you be posting an audio file?
____________________ My MP3 Section: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ My Myspace area: http://myspace.com/philj200 |
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Patrick_Woolery Approved
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I have had similar bows for over 3 years with no problems. The tension is not going to mess them up the way it will with a fine violin bow. Lower tension, less hair, less precision in the design. I will happily post a sound clip if I ever learn how to record and post one. Or, rather, I will record it and my wife will post it (I can't even edit basic html). But I don't know how and all the instructions I have seen sort of assume I already know some of the steps. You'd have to make it easy enough for a 5-year-old to understand if I'm going to figure it out. It really sounds like a fiddle with a big rubber mute on the bridge. Not bad, but sort of nasal and quieter than a violin. Instead of staining different layers differently (hard, as they are glued before shaping and the stain doesn't always respect a glue line), I would like to think of making a pair out of maple and walnut with opposite color layers. Does that make any sense? One would be mwmwm, the other wmwmw. I think it would look totally cool. I am sort of working on a rebec out of one piece, but that's a lot of work and I have not done much with it. A good set of gouges and a mallet would be a wonderful addition to my workshop, but talk about spendy! One gouge would cost more than the entire rebec did! Thank you, I am much too cheap to go that route. Glad you guys like it! I have an oval cookie tin I plan to make into a fiddle one of these days. Not today, though. I will post a picture when done. Probably not do a whole project on it, though. -Patrick
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Philj200 Approved
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New quality tools cost as much as ... new quality tools. When ever I see a garage sale or an old dusty rural anitque store I alwas ask about old tools. I've cleaned up some gems that I otherwise could not reasonably afford. Do you have a woodworker's club near you? Someone near you may have the guages you need. You can lend your tools to be neighborly or repay with sweat. (I once trade tai chi lessons for plumbing.) Doing alternating courses of different wood would be prettier in the end but maybe more dfficult if you make another rebec in the same way, with the inside of one course becoming the next course. Tin can fiddle sounds like a great idea. Sound clips are not all that difficult. I figured it out with only maximum travail. There's instructions on EZF in the MP3 section. Once you have a recording in your computer, just uploaded to your place in MP3 section.
____________________ My MP3 Section: http://ezfolk.com/audio/bands/1143/ My Myspace area: http://myspace.com/philj200 |
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