We spend a great deal of time making sure that the string is at the right angle and pressure to the wheel. When you stop the strings against the fingerboard on this instrument, you are changing all that - and worse yet you are changing it differently at the high notes than you are at the low notes. Kinda like playing a guitar with the action set too high at the nut, and too low at the bridge
I cannot see this being more than a musical novelty at best, and the hardest beast in the stable to tame at worst... Chris *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/1/2008 at 8:50 AM Don V. Lax wrote: >How the heck would you play it, is what I'd like to know... as a >violinist it looks like an interesting but daunting challenge.... >aloha- >don > > >On Jan 1, 2008, at 7:15 AM, Seth wrote: > >> http://cgi.ebay.com/Hurdy-Gurdy- >> Ninera_W0QQitemZ150200811295QQihZ005QQcategoryZ623QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZW >> D2VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122 >> >> >> This thing look's kinda neat.... Seth
