Kit or no Kit??? NO KIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have never heard anything good about the kit you link too.. If I were
going to buy a kit I would probably go with EMS because they seem to carry
quality stuff.. I think its a diatonic instrument.. Anyone have experience
with the EMS kits or EMS Symphony's... Cheers, Seth
From the EMS website...
NEW - EMS Symphony in kit form - 4 string symphony kit
£ 276.38
Douwe Boschma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello everybody,
I am new on the list as well and I have a newbie question that I am unable
to find an answer about.
But lets start properly with a small introduction. I am Douwe, a 38 yo male
living in the Norwegian moutains on a small farm with my wife and two girls
(0 and 6). Originally I am Dutch and I work (amongst some of other trades)
as a graphic designer.
Since my youth I have had a medieval gen buzzing in my system. It expresses
itself in many ways but it especially starts to resonate franticly if I hear
the sound of the hurdygurdy. I get a lyrical feeling that I don't have with
any other instrument even though I play some different instruments.
Because of this lingering love I have been thinking for years about buying a
hurdygurdy, but as with a lot of people my income goes straight into the
household so I am on budget too low to afford one that would be to my taste.
Because of this I decided to build one. I already have a plan for a
hungarian HG from the music museum in Stockholm ;-) I love the "no-frills"
form, it is a large one (and I am a very tall guy) and I expect a warm and
rich sound, lest the right kind of tone wood will be used. But before I
start with that undertaking I want to get a good feel for the instrument (on
the inside and outside) so I considered buying a kit to get me going.
Now I found two kits on internet.
The musikit.com one is well advertised but also one that I'm sure I don't
want because of it would need a lot of work to get a reasonable sound and
versatility out of it.
I am talking about this one:
http://www.musikit.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=hurd
y
And I have found an other one that I can't find any additional information
about and that is this one:
http://www.masterkit.com/rwc/products/hurdy.htm
I seems to have all the specs I am looking for except from a lacking key as
I understood about this 18th century french model. But does anyone have
experience with this HG-kit, or has anyone heard about it? Can I expect it
to be good enough for a starter? Or is it a toy to hang on the wall? ;-).
It is a budget thing really, as I can't spend more what that one would cost
me. It is even above my budget. In usd bout 1000. In euros about 740.
So that is the only option I found out about that might be a valid one, but
it is something that I wish to validate with knowledgeable people! Maybe
there are other options too that I don't know about! I'm all eyes and ears.
Sorry for this very long mail, but I though that it would be right to show a
bit about myself trough in it as I am new here. Any next on will be more to
the point.
With best regards,
Douwe
