First, you might have noted that we are starting to use the name Don Rickert Design rather than Don Rickert Lutherie. The reason for this is that we are branching out from just designing and making stringed instruments. Lutherie only refers to the design, making, setup and repair of STRINGED instruments.
We are also in the process of consolidating our various brands (Don Rickert Design, Old Mill Musical Instruments and Rickert-Fiddarci) under a single brand, Don Rickert Design(tm).
Our Two Newest Videos (Three, if you count our potato cannon demonstration) are:
Tail Toddle Rickert chord pad and drone box
The great Scottish tune, Tail Toddle (scored as a Strathspey if played slowly and a reel if played fast) .The first new video we have posted in a while and one of the rare video demos with yours truly playing the fiddle...I generally enlist fiddlers he considers far better than me for demos. The main purpose here is to introduce the new Chord Pad and Drone Box from Don Rickert Design. Enjoy!
Note: The fiddle tune, Tail Toddle, is actually the melody to one of Roberts Burns' more, shall we say, bawdy, songs. If you understood the Old Scots language (NOT Gaelic!), in which Burns wrote many of his songs, you would get the elaboration; however, the title pretty much implies what you need to know :-) Click here for the lyrics (WARNING: Extremely vulgar!...I don't want any complaints, as you were warned). Needless to say, the Old "Kirk" (Church of Scotland) had lost its tragically cruel control over the Lowlands of Scotland by the time Burns came onto the scene.
Devil in the Kitchen demo of chord pad and drone box
This is another demo of the new Chord Pad and Drone Box by Don Rickert Design. A medley of the Strathspey AND reel versions of the Scottish tune, Devil in the Kitchen, are used as part of the demonstration.
Don Rickert Design Potato Cannon
For those of you who just have to see that COOL potato cannon shoot again, here's the video:
There are some more videos in the works. That is the topic of the next post.
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