Making Simple Musical Instruments
Author: Bart Hopkin
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Published: 1999-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781579900489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing everyday items, a melodious collection of strings, winds, drums & more. Illus.
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Author: Bart Hopkin
Publisher: Lark Books (NC)
Published: 1999-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781579900489
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing everyday items, a melodious collection of strings, winds, drums & more. Illus.
Author: George Buchanan
Publisher: Batsford
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780713481402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith clear instructions and over 500 detailed diagrams, Buchanan provides a practical guide to making a range of stringed instruments such as a violin, a classical guitar, a viola, a cello, a mandolin and a mandola, all in straight-forward terms.
Author: R. Zachary Taylor
Publisher: Stobart Davies Limited
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9780854420513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains measured drawings and detailed instructions for 8 instruments; a classical guitar, mandolin, fiddle, appalachian dulcimer, lute, harp, rote or lyre and a psaltery.
Author: John Ressler
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9780764335716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides instructions on building a pickin' stick, a simple instrument to build and play. Provides exposure to the fundamentals of stringed instrument building such as building a sound box, fretting a fingerboard, installing an instrument nut and saddle,installing tuners, and stringing an instrument.
Author: Tim Olsen
Publisher:
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780962644702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigning, making and maintaining tools for making and repairing stringed musical instruments (i.e. all types of guitars, violins, mandolins, etc.). Includes measuring and inspection tools; bending irons; knives, chisels, scrapers, and planes; clamps, gluing, and holding devices; routers; sanding machines; bandsaw and drill press. Seventeen respected luthiers discuss their hand and power tool preferences.
Author: Roger H. Siminoff
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 9780634014680
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Book). An essential item for the instrument builder, The Luthier's Handbook explores the secrets and science behind making good-sounding acoustic stringed instruments. Renowned author Roger H. Siminoff brings to the table more than four decades of luthiery experience and shares the time-tested philosophies, tips and technology of the craft. As the ideal complement to other books on building instruments, this text describes the structural and acoustical attributes of air chambers; what to listen for when tap-tuning; selecting a good piece of wood; placement of the braces and tone bars and how to tune them; how to select the right strings; what to consider in bridge design concepts; and much more. Includes a free String Gauge Calculator for determining the right set of strings.
Author: Chuck Traeger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-02-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 1495093859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKString musicians, know only this: everything is vibrating. The movement of the spheres? A guru's cryptic musing? Hypersensitivity to plate tectonics? Not quite. This is the briefest possible distillation of Trager's Principle, which states, “When a string instrument is being played, everything is vibrating, from the top of the scroll to the tip of the endpin.” This simple formula, the purest distillation of master luthier Chuck Traeger's lifetime of learning, holds the key to configuring your instrument to your specifications. It also forms the crux of his third and final book: String Instrument Setups: 10 Setups That Will Make Your Instrument Louder, Better, and Easier to Play. At the height of the Big Band era, Traeger, a double bassist, performed alongside a veritable who's who of New York jazz musicians including the likes of Louie Armstrong and Sidney Bechet. In was in this capacity – as Charlie Traeger, one hip cat and a regularly frustrated client of NYC's instrument repair shops –ÿthat he began his pursuit of sonic perfection. In 1969, satisfied with his abilities but devoted to constant self-improvement, he opened his first repair shop. Before he knew it, his reputation was preceding him, and he found himself handling the instruments of school band novices and the New York Philharmonic alike. On his seventieth birthday, Traeger retired from musicianship and devoted himself to comprehensively documenting all he had learned about his craft. Two decades later, shortly after he put the finishing touches on String Instrument Setups, Chuck Traeger passed away on November 9, 2016. Scarcely a month had elapsed since the death of his beloved wife, June, to whom he was married for over sixty blissful years. Albeit with a heavy heart, we at Hal Leonard Books are proud to present this remarkable man's parting gift to generations of current and future musicians. String Instrument Setups is the culmination of forty-five years of acoustic research involving Trager's old standby, the double bass, and, in turn, any string instrument with a moveable bridge and a moveable tailpiece, or one that can be made moveable. Armed with this book, we're confident that the average musician can enter almost any string instrument maker or repair shop in the world (the exception being a shop that has already read String Instrument Setups), ask for their best repair or restoration, then make that instrument sound louder, better, and easier to play, every time. This is neither braggadocio nor hyperbole; rather, it's the confidence instilled by one man's extensive research, wholehearted devotion, and firm belief in the sacred bond between instrument and musician. After reading String Instrument Setups, we're sure you'll feel the same.
Author: David Rattray
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2000-12-13
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 146166960X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a unique view of the work of the great Italian violin-makers from the 17th to the 19th centuries, based on the collection of The Royal Academy of Music in London. The Academy, founded in 1822, is Britain's senior conservatory and one of the oldest institutions in the world for advanced musical training. Included here are masterpieces by Amati, Cappa, Celoniato, Ceruti, Dalla Costa, Deconet, Gagliano, Grancino, Guadagnini, Guarneri, Landolfi, Pressenda, Rota, Rugeri, Seraphin, Sorsana, Stradivari, Tecchler, and Testore. This revised edition has an updated descriptive text, features 15 extra entries, devotes at least two full-color spreads to each instrument, and is supplemented with a new dendrochronological study. Specially-commissioned photographs display each violin, viola, or cello with large, high-quality illustrations, revealing details of these instruments as never before. The Academy's collection of stringed instruments consists of around 100 violins and a similar combined number of violas and celli, the majority of which were received as gifts over the last century, beginning with the Rutson Bequest in 1906. These working instruments are maintained in fine playing condition and generally are in the hands of young musicians during their time as students or at the outset of their careers. The fine selection presented here underlines the collection's core of masterpiece Italian violins, and for the most part this book includes only those instruments in the purest state of conservation.
Author: Shane Speal
Publisher: Fox Chapel Publishing
Published: 2018-10-09
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 1607655470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK• Shows how to build cigar box guitars and other amazing musical instruments made from found items. • Step-by-step instructions and color photographs. • Background on the history of cigar box guitars and the golden age of blues and jazz. • Introduction from the New Orleans Museum of Jazz. • Recognized as the creator of the modern cigar box guitar movement and known as the “King of the Cigar Box Guitar,” this author is an active roots music performer with a ready audience of fans on social media.
Author: Roger H. Siminoff
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780634062858
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Book). The Ultimate Bluegrass Mandolin Construction Manual is the most complete step-by-step treatise ever written on building an acoustical string instrument. Siminoff, a renowned author and luthier, applies over four decades of experience to guide beginners to pros through detailed chapters on wood selection, cutting, carving, shaping, assembly, inlays, fretting, binding and assembly of an F-style mandolin. A special highlight is an in-depth chapter on the art of tap tuning. This fully-illustrated manual boasts more than 250 photos, a full-color section on the staining and finishing processes, numerous detailed illustrations, and a bonus set of 20 full-size blueprints. Spiral bound.