Good point Chris, and that might explain why the instruments in that link someone else sent sometimes sound unpleasantly harsh.
But this sets me thinking about a possible solution to this problem, that would still enable those fun slides you can get when you don't have a keyboard. What about strings that you don't press down to a fingerboard at all, but instead just stop in midair with your fingers, like you play a gadulka? Or, how about stopping the strings with a slide like a slide guitar? Just throwing some ideas out there for the experimental luthiers on the list. I'm perfectly happy with my hg as is. Melissa --- Chris Nogy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
