Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just purchased a Symphonia from Robert Mandel, and he send me here to learn how to make it. I am waiting now for the resin to melt in the isopropyl alcohol - I hope I have the ratio right!! I have watched a lot of your channel before I bought my instrument. I appreciate your to-the-point honesty, and definitely enjoy the humour :) Plus your hair = fabulous. I wonder if you have some sort of guide that describes how often we might need to apply the rosin. I know it is dependant on how much how the instrument is played. I usually apply rosin on my viola da gamba bow each time I play it, but I'm not sure if that's what needs to be done for the hurdy gurdy. Thanks again! Liked and Subscribed!
hello Shawn, we aply rosin whenever the sound of the instrument goes quieter or when the trompette response changes, more rosin is always good if the adjustment is correct ;)
Is it possible to super-saturate the liquid rosin? (ie. dissolve more rosin into the alcohol than it can normally hold.) I had read that a hot water bath would speed up the dissolve. So I added my pulverized rosin and the alcohol into a bottle, then put the bottle in a pan of hot water. It worked great, and it was all dissolved very quickly. But, after letting it cool down to room temperature, there was undissolved rosin at the bottom of the bottle and it clogged up the pipette. I heated it up again, and again, it went into a beautiful liquid. But cooled down, not so beautiful. Think I need to thin out my mixture!
Some people are hesitant of using liquid rosin because they think the wood grain raises, in my experience it never happened to me, of course you have to be careful with the varnish that's why we use only 1 or 2 drops
Hello from Patagonia Argentina Im descendente from basques and i realized that you have tattoed the ELOLECARCO in old Iberian runes on your chest... where are you from?
Forgive my ignorance, but why liquid over traditional method? Since the alcohol evaporates after applying.. Learning Tallharpa, and someone mentioned using liquid rosin. Was kinda worried It would dry out my strings, but didn't understand why to use one way over the other.
Does the rosin have to be really finely ground, or is little chips okay? Would a mortar and pestle work instead of hammering, or do you think that'd be an unnecessary extra step? Is there any major difference between using light rosin vs dark rosin? I know from cello that the dark rosin tends to be stickier, so would it be better to use a dark rosin solution for thicker drone strings, and then lighter rosin for thinner melody strings?
Even if you put the full rosin block on alcohol its going to melt, powdering it or making small chips helps disolving it. I preffer light rosin, dark rosin is softer and sometimes has wax on the mix, as the rosin goes on the wheel I'd use just one type.
Sergio, this was a fun and helpful video. Thanks so much for posting this.
Thanks Matthew!
REMEMBER!!! Only 2 or 3 drops
ps: Sorry again for the edit errors on this vid !
It was entertaining, no errors. Funny and informative
I don't know how I ended up here, but I love you! You are sooo funny! Already subscribed to support you❤️
Thanks :)
Sergio - I love your videos - really grateful for all your help!
Thank you so much for this tutorial. I just purchased a Symphonia from Robert Mandel, and he send me here to learn how to make it. I am waiting now for the resin to melt in the isopropyl alcohol - I hope I have the ratio right!!
I have watched a lot of your channel before I bought my instrument. I appreciate your to-the-point honesty, and definitely enjoy the humour :) Plus your hair = fabulous.
I wonder if you have some sort of guide that describes how often we might need to apply the rosin. I know it is dependant on how much how the instrument is played. I usually apply rosin on my viola da gamba bow each time I play it, but I'm not sure if that's what needs to be done for the hurdy gurdy.
Thanks again! Liked and Subscribed!
hello Shawn, we aply rosin whenever the sound of the instrument goes quieter or when the trompette response changes, more rosin is always good if the adjustment is correct ;)
Aaaaand today I TRY THIS!!! Good luck to me and thanks for the recipe.
Is it possible to super-saturate the liquid rosin? (ie. dissolve more rosin into the alcohol than it can normally hold.)
I had read that a hot water bath would speed up the dissolve. So I added my pulverized rosin and the alcohol into a bottle, then put the bottle in a pan of hot water. It worked great, and it was all dissolved very quickly. But, after letting it cool down to room temperature, there was undissolved rosin at the bottom of the bottle and it clogged up the pipette. I heated it up again, and again, it went into a beautiful liquid. But cooled down, not so beautiful.
Think I need to thin out my mixture!
Yes maybe let it cool and take the liquid to another drop bottle
@@Sergio.GonzalezPrats Thanks - will look for another bottle while I'm out (need to get some modelling files to help finish off my Nerdy Gurdy!)
Amazing tutorial! But won't the alcohol eventually damage the wheel if it's made of wood? Or the wood varnish?
Some people are hesitant of using liquid rosin because they think the wood grain raises, in my experience it never happened to me, of course you have to be careful with the varnish that's why we use only 1 or 2 drops
@@Sergio.GonzalezPrats Okay thanks Sergio!
Hello from Patagonia Argentina Im descendente from basques and i realized that you have tattoed the ELOLECARCO in old Iberian runes on your chest... where are you from?
Spain!
Me gusta mucho la manera como explicas la manera de hacerlo :-)
Gracias! Animate a probar 😁
We call it a paper towel :)
Almost!! 🤣
I actually ended up using freezer paper as the rosin was sticking to the paper towel.
Or kitchen roll / kitchen paper.
Thank you very much for the recipe! :)
your welcome my friend!
Forgive my ignorance, but why liquid over traditional method? Since the alcohol evaporates after applying..
Learning Tallharpa, and someone mentioned using liquid rosin. Was kinda worried It would dry out my strings, but didn't understand why to use one way over the other.
Hello Brandy, liquid rosin gives you a very fine and evenly distributed layer of rosin, plus the ability of locking your cotton for bowing
How to make no clean flux liquid
Hahahaha The first time I made it I wasn't so clever and spent like 15 minutes grinding the rosin with a knife :')
Noooo way 🤣🤣🤣
Hello from Patagonia Argentina.
ELOLECARCO?
Kitchen paper it is. I don't know what the Americans call it. (¿Cómo se llama en castellano? Cóm es diu en catalá? Papel de cocina? Paper de cuina?)
Hi Roland! We call it "papel de cocina" in Spain, not sure about Catalan though. Where are you from?
@@polifemopolimorfo7277 Cerca de Londres.
Paper towel is the usual term I hear in Aus / USA.
En català, paper de cuina també.
Does the rosin have to be really finely ground, or is little chips okay? Would a mortar and pestle work instead of hammering, or do you think that'd be an unnecessary extra step? Is there any major difference between using light rosin vs dark rosin? I know from cello that the dark rosin tends to be stickier, so would it be better to use a dark rosin solution for thicker drone strings, and then lighter rosin for thinner melody strings?
Even if you put the full rosin block on alcohol its going to melt, powdering it or making small chips helps disolving it. I preffer light rosin, dark rosin is softer and sometimes has wax on the mix, as the rosin goes on the wheel I'd use just one type.
Don't use a mortar, just put it in a plastic bag or tough paper and hammer it. Rosin powder STICKS TO EVERYTHING and washing the mortar is a pain.
I wonder what would happen if you mixed the dark and the light rosin 🤔
Probably nothing, but dark rosin sometines has wax on it and doesn't disolve that well
this paper thing is called paper towel in english
I've had someone ask for this video. Can I publicly share this video?
Sure, do it, np
What happens if you apply 4 drops?
It explodes
@@Sergio.GonzalezPratsThanks for the laugh 😂
1:44 Sergio enjoying the moment :'D
Close but we call them paper towels in US
It's a bit sticky! Made some.
🤨 is this topical?
😂😂😂