From: "Colin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The comments regarding these kits are generally unfavourable unless you just want the fun of making something and you have the skill to do all the rest of the work needed to get it playing (and the extra money). It's likely it will cost the same as one from a maker by the time it's playable (and needs a lot of time spent as well). You will probably need an experienced player to actually set it up as well or there is little chance of it being playable (at least by someone new to HGs).
In that case, I will especially careful to document exactly how we built the kit, what extra we had to do and spend, and what the results were. One of the attractions for me of the kit idea was that after the building, I would understand exactly how the parts fit together and worked, so that in the future when adjustments and changes had to be made, I would have some idea of what had to be changed and why.
As far as the lack of of trompette/chien -- I understand that the French tradition considers them obligatory, but there are plenty of other folk traditions that had hurdy gurdies without them.
Kathy Hutchins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
