Keith Miller
Sep-03-2009, 12:25pm
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Cassandra-Elk-Design-Dommel-Mittelalter-Bouzouki_W0QQitemZ350245251641QQcmdZViewItemQQptZS treich_und_Zupfinstrumente?hash=item518c3e6a39&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
Personally I don't like it but.....
MikeEdgerton
Sep-03-2009, 12:31pm
That would be an acquired taste. It is unusual to say the least.
foldedpath
Sep-03-2009, 12:48pm
It's a converted dulcimer according to a rough Google translation. I guess you'd have to play it like a dulcimer? Doesn't look very comfortable to hold vertically. Here's the Google translation:
This instrument is the great-8 string lyre Vulture (Geyer lyre Geyerleyer, etc.), modeled after that I developed and invented a few years ago ..
Originally, it started with a dulcimer (firewood, dulcimer), which is covered with 8 strings instead of 4, as usual. In addition, the strings are double choir, as mandola, Waldcister, etc., arranged and tuned diatonic (eg: D - A - D - A, or G - A #-G - A #, etc.), and that `I have partially preserved as in my.
Here is a Bouzuki-Frets is used, which allows a wider range to have, rather than the normal-dulcimer fretboards.
The sound is the "Geyer lyre" (see Shop) is very similar. I have voted in this instrument eE-bB-ee-bb.
Power is also optically in the Folk & Medieval Scene very good ..................
I recommend the Dommel in this version of eE-bB-ee-bb agree, deep does not sound later the bridge will hold rather not see!
Technical:
Guitar tuners, chrome
Rosewood neck with 14 frets
Sides: Rosewood, Solid
Soil: Rosewood, Solid
Top: Spruce, Solid
"Tribal" Soundhole
Limited Edition
Jim MacDaniel
Sep-03-2009, 3:02pm
Weird design -- especially the limited access above the 8th fret -- but that sound-hole is really cool.