Don Rickert Musical Instruments

Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Makers of Violoncellos da Spalla and Other Fine Bowed Instruments

For more information about us, including our online store, the Don Rickert Musician Shop, see Introducing the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Don Rickert Musical Instruments is a premiere designer and maker of innovative custom and historic musical instruments. Since starting our musical instruments enterprise in 2007, we have dealt primarily in those of the bowed variety (e.g. violins, fiddles and related instruments such as octave fiddles). We have also designed and made a number of fretted instruments along the way: mandolins, parlor guitars, acoustic bass guitars, tenor guitars and the like. We will soon be branching out in a serious way into the world of fretted musical instruments. Look forward to some really interesting mandolins, octave mandolins, mandocellos, parlor guitars, acoustic bass guitars, tenor guitars and the like. Regular production items are usually available at the Don Rickert Musician Shop. If you want something that is not there, give us a call... Our email is [email protected] and main phone number is (706) 896-0909. Don Rickert's mobile phone number is (706) 400-1481 Mailing address: Don Rickert Musical Instruments 726 Hall Creek Road Hiawassee, GA 30546 See: Our new online store, the Don Rickert Musician Shop (www.DonRickertMusicianShop.com) Our companion blog, Don Rickert Musician Shop: Latest News (www.DonRickertMusicianShop.com/blog) The Facebook page of our owner, Donald Rickert (We still have a large number of photo albums there) (www.facebook.com/donald.rickert1) Our new company Facebook page, also called D. Rickert Musical Instruments (www.facebook.com/DonRickertMusicianShop) Our YouTube Channel: www.YouTube.com/DoctorFiddle >>>>>>> Click here for Our full contact information <<<<<<<< ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~... Read more →

Don Rickert Musician Shop is Unique: Part 1 (Hard to Find Stuff)

Please visit the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Don Rickert Musician Shop (D. Rickert Musical Instruments) is the place to go for unique instruments that are either very hard or even impossible to find anywhere else. Some examples: Travel / Backpacker Violins and Fiddles We make and sell the finest innovative and ergonomically perfect travel/backpacker violins in the world. Several dozen customers a year opt for one of our travel violins, despite the fact that they cost from 3 to 4 times as much as our apparent competitors. 5-String Violins We make and sell one of best 5-string violins that money can buy (note: There ARE some very fine 5-string instruments by competitors). We also sell the very nice new 5-String acoustic-electric Realist violin by David Gage. We also make and sell an incredible 5-string travel violin. Octave Violins and Violas We make the most advanced and best-sounding octave violins and octave violas (aka “chin cellos”). Dr. Rickert has been researching acoustic octave violins for more than 15 years. He has designed a number of such instruments over the past decade, each new one better than the rest. We sell a lot of these. Top recording artists own a number of them. Tertis Wide-Body Violas in all Sizes We are one of the only U.S. based sources of extremely high quality Tertis wide-body violas, in sizes from 15” to 16.5” (note: viola size is designated by the length of the instrument body, from the saddle to the neck joint). These instruments... Read more →

Dead Links to Adventurous Muse Store (and other bad links)

The Short Answer The Adventurous Muse Store no longer exists. It has been replaced by the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Go to the Don Rickert Musician Shop to see the products currently offered. If you came to this site "through the back door" (i.e. via search engine), rather than a proper entry through the home page (the front door) you probably do not know a thing about our company, Don Rickert Musical Instruments. Do yourself a favor and us the courtesy of visiting the home page by clicking anywhere on the page top banner. Then, you can actually bookmark the page. The Complete (and Longer) Answer The Adventurous Muse Store no longer exists. We still own the Adventurous Muse Store domain name. It is used to redirect people to the new Don Rickert Musician Shop. The Adventurous Muse Store has "migrated" to the Don Rickert Musician Shop. Because the Adventurous Muse Store no longer exists, any links to the products that used to reside there will not work. These are called "dead links." This website/blog, Don Rickert Musical Instruments (www.RickertMusicalInstruments.com), previously called the Adventurous Muse (we let that domain expire) has been around for a good while. Prior to a major clean up, there were more than 700 articles here. Many of these articles were clearly "junk", such as old holiday sales notifications and the like. We got rid of these. However, several hundred articles with useful information remained. Of these, about 100 were of especially high value to us... Read more →

Contact Information: Don Rickert Musical Instruments

Company Official Identifications: Wiederholt & Rickert Partners, LLC (a Georgia Limited Liability Corporation) DBA Don Rickert Research & Design™ (www.DonRickertDesign.com) DBA Don Rickert Musical Instruments™ (www.RickertMusicalInstruments.com Online Store: Don Rickert Musician Shop (www.DonRickertMusicianShop.com) Blogs: Don Rickert Musical Instruments (www.RickertMusicalInstruments.com) (this site) Don Rickert Musician Shop: Latest News (www.DonRickertMuscianShop.com/blog) Facebook: Business Page: D. Rickert Musical Instruments (www.Facebook.com/DonRickertMusicianShop) Owner's Personal Page: Donald Rickert (www.Facebook.com/donald.rickert1) Address, Phone and Email: Don Rickert Musical Instruments D. Rickert Musical Instruments 726 Hall Creek Road, Hiawassee, GA 30546 (706) 896-0909 (706) 400-1481 (mobile) [email protected] Donald E.Rickert, Ph.D., IDSA Managing Partner Read more →