Now I understand the use of the curved invert form of the real fiddle at the place where you bow. That can't be easy with this home-made Hardanger fiddle. The initiative is interesting, though. To get a nicer sound from it, you need to spend many hours on it and "PLAY IT IN" to get a nicer and more mellow sound from it. If there are tensions inside the fiddle, it may crack. However, I don't think that it will happen to your fiddle.
Nice fiddle, but what you need to do is always play it on two strings. So if you are playing Kitchen Girl, use the D or the A or the E as the drone strings as you are playing on the string next to it. Also the strings have to be tuned a whole step up from the violin, and the G to a B. so it goes B, E, B, F# your understrings starting from the G string side are E F# G# B. Hope this helps, see www.hfaa.org for more resources.
sweet job
Grand sound
You can hear the resonance strings working well - making your own instrument or restoring one for playing is so satisfying.
Wolfy O'Hare Could not agree more.
Now I understand the use of the curved invert form of the real fiddle at the place where you bow. That can't be easy with this home-made Hardanger fiddle. The initiative is interesting, though. To get a nicer sound from it, you need to spend many hours on it and "PLAY IT IN" to get a nicer and more mellow sound from it. If there are tensions inside the fiddle, it may crack. However, I don't think that it will happen to your fiddle.
Impressive!!
The Geared make it easier to tune. That means you no longer need fine tuners on that tailpiece.
Nice fiddle, but what you need to do is always play it on two strings. So if you are playing Kitchen Girl, use the D or the A or the E as the drone strings as you are playing on the string next to it. Also the strings have to be tuned a whole step up from the violin, and the G to a B. so it goes B, E, B, F# your understrings starting from the G string side are E F# G# B. Hope this helps, see www.hfaa.org for more resources.