Jake, where are you located? Perhaps someone with a bit more
experience could swing a meeting with you and help you out with the
cotton and rosin issues. I would be glad to give it a try if we're
within striking distance of each other.
Felicia.
On Dec 20, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Jake Conte wrote:
Hi Elisabeth and Kevin,
By "high maintenance" I mean the whole cotton issue. Do I put to
much cotton, loo little cotton? Tweaking the tangents. One player
once told me not to worry about whether I put too much or too little
cotton. Eventually I should know how much to put on. Another
roadblock was that I had asked to have it set up in D/G as I play
primarily Celtic music and figured D/G would be better suited for
that.
And, not to dwell on Bruno's comments, but I just wanted to add that
this was going to be my one and only hurdy gurdy purchase and I
wanted to get it with all the 'bells and whistles' and I wouldn't be
able to afford a second gurdy. Now, I'm thinking maybe I should
have bought a more basic model instead. They did make a
"Symphonie" model which was a lot less expensive.
Thank you all for your inspiration. I will definitely make a go of
it and, hopefully, will not be putting it up for sale next year.
Jake
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Kevin Hughes <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hello Jake,
I'm curious as to what problems you are encountering in learning to
play. You used the phrase high maintenance in two of your emails.
Could you be more specific as what these issues are?
I was once asked to look an Orca from Olympic Instruments. A friend
had borrowed it from another friend(who been give it as a gift but
never played it) and thought that the bridge needed to be lowered(or
the string notches made deeper) and wanted me to look at it and see
what I thought. It turned out that he was trying to tune the open
chanterelle to D and so the string was not making good contact with
the wheel. I looked at the paperwork that came with the instrument,
found the chanterelle should be tuned to G, tuned it, cottoned the
string, did a bit of shimming, and the instrument played. (This was
a couple of years ago and I still haven't seen the friend play it.)
But it seemed like the instrument was close to being good to go
when shipped.
When starting out the cottoning and related shimming is the first
hurdle to overcome. Neil Brook has a youtube video that is helpful
for this. Next is getting used to turning the crank and playing
notes. The Muskett book is good for this as are Neil Brook's DVD
tutorials. Aftre that work in trompette technique. Scott Gayman
has a great series of youtube videos on this. And as with any
instrument consistent practice yields best results.
You will of course have to replace the cotton from time to time. A
tangent or two may shift and need to be realigned. There could be
other issues that arise, however once the instrument is set up it
doesn't seem to me to need constant tweaking. Other folks may have
other experiences.
I wish you well in your endeavors.
Kevin
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