Don Rickert Musical Instruments

Measurements for Determining Correct Violin/Fiddle or Viola Size

Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Related article: Helping People with Special Needs Realize Their Musical Goals: Part 1 of 2 Introduction Such measurements for determining appropriately sized violins and violas for children are available many places on the Internet. The measurements and test tasks we describe below are geared towards the adult novice or experienced player who needs to be “re-fit” for an instrument due to either traumatic injury (e.g. damaged rotator cuff),... Read more →

Helping People with Special Needs Realize Their Musical Goals: Part 1 of 2

Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Prologue This first of two articles focuses on the problems many musicians are trying to overcome. The second article will focus on a large number of solutions we have discovered over the years. Note: The author himself multi-instrumentalist, including fiddle, violin and viola, suffers from artritis, rotator cuff injury and neuropathy. Introduction D. Rickert Musical Instruments and its online store, the Don Rickert Musician Shop, have become the... Read more →

Non-Toxic Zero VOC Old-School Varnishing Used by D. Rickert Musical Instruments

Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. D. Rickert (Don Rickert Musician Shop) has recently completed the disruption of moving to a new, better, way of varnishing, the topic is very fresh. In this article, I will tell you about the “why” as well as the “how”, at least in a summary manner. Summary With our newly adopted “modern” old-school Italian oil varnishing methods. The varnishing alone is a one to two week process culminating... Read more →