Jaromin Boondocker: Unboxing & Demo (dulcimter/dulcitar)
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- Опубліковано 15 лип 2024
- The folks at Jaromin sent me this cool instrument to unbox. It's a 4-string dulcitar made from maple with a spruce top. It really sounds nice. You can find them for sale on their Etsy page: www.etsy.com/shop/AnnalisesCr...
Intro - 0:00
Unboxing - 0:26
Specs & Overview - 1:40
Sound Samples (acoustic) - 3:27
Sound Samples (electric) - 6:15
Summary - 7:24
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Wow. I love this instrument! I will be watching for upcoming videos featuring it. Great unboxing and demo. Your channel is a perfect fit for debuting such an instrument. 🙂🎶
Thanks for checking it out and thanks to Jaromin for thinking of me. It's really a great design.
A very high level of craftsmanship for the cost! Great job of showing it off Kale. You made it sing and demonstrated it’s versatility. Fun instrument!
Thanks for checking it out. I think Jaromin is making a great instrument at a perfect price point.
Nice instrument! It looks and sounds great! The flame maple neck is especially nice! The workmanship looks well done! This is definitely competition for the Seagull Merlin! Thanks for the demo!
Thanks Steve. It's very similar to the Seagull Merlin. I actually thought the same thing. A very cool instrument for backpacking or camping or whatever.
Very nice looking instrument. I agree that spruce top really resonates and the grain of the neck is beautiful. Nice video. Awesome instrument Jaromin.
Thanks for tuning in. I really like it. Patrick did a great job on the build and design.
Thanks!
Very informative review and great demo. Came back and re-watched a few more times and was sold... Mahogany Boondocker ordered.😅
Glad the video was helpful! I think you'll really like the Boondocker.
dang now i wanna get this!
For the price, I don't think you can go wrong. It's a really nice instrument.
Thanks for the great video and playing! Love to make them, but more fun to play -- and see them played well. Thanks and really hope you enjoy.
Too funny. I just emailed you to say the video was posted and you've already commented. LOL. Thanks for checking it out. It's a really great little instrument. I hope this video helps promote the Boondocker.
@@musicalmiscellany For sure. I'm a subscriber, really dig your work - and not just when our instruments are in the video. Looking forward to more.
As someone who builds instruments for fun, I can appreciate the craftsmanship that goes into these instruments. Well done!
@@stevesstrings5243 Thanks!
Beautiful instrument. Im impressed
I own the seagull Merlin (not enough frets ) and also the g and d strum sticks and while they are cool they are very thin sounding and a little hard to balance and play. Yours looks and sounds so much nicer !! 😊
very cool
Thanks. It's a neat little instrument for sure.
Love the maple wood! The sound is great. I can't help but think of the old Missouri song, "Everytime I Go to Town the Boys Start Kicking My Dog Around." Dulcimers just have that Hillbilly sound that reminds me of my youth.
Thanks for checking it out Bob. It's a really cool instrument. Patrick did a great job.
Neat instrument. That's a little more my style of instrument since it's held like a guitar.
I agree. Dulcimer always feels a little odd to me but this one handles like a CBG.
@@musicalmiscellany What's the tuning?
@@SouthernCeltMS It's tuned D-A-D-D, so it's like a CBG (i-v-i) tuning only a bit higher and with a unison high string.
Love this! Dulcitar! And spruce top too! Do they do a kit form?
I've been considering it. If enough ask, I would. I was thinking it might be interesting to offer one with a solid top so that you could cut your own sound hole design into it.
They don't currently, but as you see from the maker... it may be coming. Thanks for checking out the video.
Omg it has a pickup....I want one so badly. I have a seagull merlin dulcimer. It hasn't got a pickup though.
It's pretty nice. They make a version with and without a pickup.
First : that’s awesome that they sent it to you. And second I can’t believe how loud it is unplugged and NOT tinny sounding at all. When you plugged it in it was very impressive. Think about it a lot of folks charge almost that to put a pick up in anything. Lol
Love it and can’t wait to hear more
One question. What is the difference between this instrument and the 3 string cigar box guitar (aside from the obvious that the body is not made from a cigar box lol )
Thanks for checking it out. A cigar box guitar is typically tuned G-D-G (i-v-i) & dulcitar is typically tuned D-A-D-D (effectively i-v-i), so they are very similar. It's kinda like comparing a tenor banjo to a mandolin.
@@musicalmiscellany okay cool cause I tune my dulcimers DAD and I thought that’s what my Merlin is but I hardly play it. So that’s cool that if you can play own you can play the other :)
@@musicalmiscellany could you tune the dulcitar to GDG? or even tune the 2 strings that are connected, differently from one another?
I wonder if it is even possible to get a full 4 string version of this were all 4 strings stand on their own. (I don't know what the technical terms are since I have no music knowledge lol)
@@-jank-willson With a coursed string pair you typically tune them in unison or an octave apart since there's not really a way to fret the strings individually. With the included strings you might be able to tune this one down to C-F-C or up to E-B-E but I don't think you'd get it to a G. You'd have to go to a heavier string gauge for that.
@@musicalmiscellany Would it be possible, with a little bit of woodworking skills, to take the coursed string pair and 'un-course' them, so that all 4 strings would stand on their own?
It would be interesting to hear it through some effects - for some reason an electro-harmonix big muff pedal comes to mind.
That could get really interesting. Maybe I'll have to do a dulcitar meets pedalboard vid.
Hey man, I recognize that riff!
Ha ha. Yeah. I did this for one of my CBG lessons a couple years back. It works on dulcimer too. 😁
@@musicalmiscellany Thanks to that lesson I play that every time I pick up my Hobo Fiddle 🤣 I notice a few of the basic CBG chords work on the dulcimer as well. I'll have to keep that in mind if I happen to get my hands on one.
@@TheSTEEBOS Dude. I can't tell you how great that makes me feel. I make these vids hoping someone actually tries them so it's so great to get that feedback man. Thanks for watching.
I came soooo CLOSE to buying one of these, but it doesn't have the entire dulcimer fretboard. That was a deal breaker for me... It made me sad because otherwise it IS a gorgeous instrument.
Thanks for checking out the video. I'm not sure what you mean by the entire fretboard. It only has about 1 octave worth of frets, so that's probably what you're referencing.
Why does it sound out of tune? Can you adjust the intonation?
It's possible the strings are still stretching as I play. It's a brand new instrument. As far as the intonation, it has a floating bridge so you can angle it slightly but it doesn't have individual saddles. FWIW, I've not noticed it sounding like it's badly intimated in day-to-day playing. Thanks for checking out the vid.
what kind of an amp is that please?
Thanks for watching. I made that amp myself from a cigar box and an old radio speaker. It's a one off.
Similar to the Seagull Merlin.
Very much so. I thought the same thing.
Definitely the inspiration. The Boondocker includes a 6-1/2 fret, and comes in an all Mahogany version, and IMHO sounds and looks better ;). (I may be biased.)
@@jarominguitars Mine shipped today - can't wait to see it, hold it, play it! It is beautiful! 🙂
@@jarominguitars I looked at both (more than a few times) and decided on a Jaromin.
tuning?
I mentioned that around 2:54 in the vid. The tuning is D-A-D-D. Essentially a 1-5-8 (D power chord) tuning.
3 strings and 4 tuners...thats gotta be asking for a mandolin style octave pairing at the top end..
Correct. The normal turning for a dulcimer is to duplicate the high string in octave, similar to a 12-string guitar or mandolin. Thanks for checking it out.