rfi "other" stringed/fretted instruments - cittern, lute, bouzouki, mandola, banjola, nickelharpa etc.

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not banjo, guitar, resonator guitar or mandolin.

Has anyone used any of this stuff? Have vague idea for electronic/acoustic hybrid music using "folk"/"early" instruments in a non-folk context. dada, iirc you have a bouzouki? Other than Ozark, who makes any of this stuff at a reasonable price. Fylde make a Cittern and I think a lute, but Fylde are pretty "high-end", and I can't afford to lay out 1100 quid on spec, nice though it would be!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:31 (twenty years ago)

I dunno, but if you're ever near Tacoma Park, MD, you should check out House of Musical Traditions.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

http://www.houseofmusicaltraditions.com/

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

There's also this one:

http://www.larkinam.com/Default.asp?bhcd2=1121270700

― RS LaRue (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

You can hear some pretty good cittern playing on a fair number of neo-trad records--check out the Battlefield Band and John McCusker's solo work.

Bouzouki, well. Get one Pogues record!

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 13 July 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

I bought a cittern-guitar. It's a six-course six-stringer, made in Romania, from lime-wood. It needs a little setting up coz the intonation is a little bit sketchy. It was very, very cheap. It sounds nice though. I'm going to get a kit-form proper cittern (five courses, ten strings) next month.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 22 July 2005 15:51 (twenty years ago)

eight years pass...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jozef-van-wissem-wants-to-make-the-lute-sexy-again-and-jim-jarmusch-is-helping-him/2014/04/10/5b9734f2-be92-11e3-bcec-b71ee10e9bc3_story.html

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 April 2014 15:58 (eleven years ago)

saw flower-corsano duo last night with mick flower SHREDDING on the shahi baaja, like so:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E3dcL9uva4&hd=1

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 16 April 2014 15:35 (eleven years ago)

The saz

― When I Get To The Borad (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 18 April 2014 15:15 (eleven years ago)

Andy Irvine fretmelting on the waldzither:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1l8hSBqS3E&feature=kp

― Reg, Friday, 18 April 2014 15:58 (eleven years ago)

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