I see that the price for it made is £1500 (£3000 US).
Doesn't that equate to around the price of a "decent" locally-built HG? Strikes
me that you would have to be pretty skilled to build one and know what you were
doing, as well.
I'll stick to my £800 ($1600US) German-built budget one, I think, for the
foreseeable future. ( I'm a carpenter, not a joiner).
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: Seth
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: [HG] Kit or no kit? And if so which one?
I checked the price list for the 2nd kit on masterkit.com
KHG Hurdy Gurdy - Henry III style £563,94 Inc VAT
So that's about 1,112.52 USD
sylvain gagnon mini moteur 2000 inc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi douwe ...it is very funny to see all of us ,newbeeeeessss)arrive here
with musikit in mind lollllll.
musikit you can made a x on this , i just finished one for my young
boy 10 years old i even dont know if it will work .but as first
building experience i must admit i had fun to build ... but the other
kit seemms better , other member will tell you if it is good , i am
curious to know what is the price of the second one .. thanks sylvain
----- Original Message -----
From: "Douwe Boschma"
To:
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:20 AM
Subject: [HG] Kit or no kit? And if so which one?
> 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
>
>
>
>
>
>
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