Such wonderful work! Each is special and has its own character. I'd love to play that classical guitar, tho I don't know why. It calls to me? Regardless, my favorite part of this video is how you don't remember how you made things. Embarrassing how much i relate to that.
Brilliant, Oscar! I'm so impressed. I love the hammered dulcimer. I always thought that I needed one of those...to go with the 10 other instruments I have and don't play. ;-) Once you tune the dulcimer, how is it at STAYING in tune?
It does stay reasonably in tune - in fact it is still somewhat in tune after sitting in basement for a decade. There is much bigger chance that the pegs will refuse to turn than to start turning freely. The biggest problem is that unlike say violin with thicker pegs, these have small diameter so a fraction of degree changes the pitch. It's really time consuming to tune the string perfectly because you need to just slightly breathe on the tuning key to get it there. And only the orchestra tuner was able to pick up the low and high strings.
I like to make things. Then I was daring myself to go further. I also started making classical violin (carving the scroll and shaping the body) but got there half way before got bored.
You could make the travel guitar into a lapsteel by making a stand 👍👍😎
Such wonderful work! Each is special and has its own character. I'd love to play that classical guitar, tho I don't know why. It calls to me? Regardless, my favorite part of this video is how you don't remember how you made things. Embarrassing how much i relate to that.
Brilliant, Oscar! I'm so impressed. I love the hammered dulcimer. I always thought that I needed one of those...to go with the 10 other instruments I have and don't play. ;-) Once you tune the dulcimer, how is it at STAYING in tune?
It does stay reasonably in tune - in fact it is still somewhat in tune after sitting in basement for a decade. There is much bigger chance that the pegs will refuse to turn than to start turning freely. The biggest problem is that unlike say violin with thicker pegs, these have small diameter so a fraction of degree changes the pitch. It's really time consuming to tune the string perfectly because you need to just slightly breathe on the tuning key to get it there. And only the orchestra tuner was able to pick up the low and high strings.
This is genius! How did you start in making instruments?
I like to make things. Then I was daring myself to go further. I also started making classical violin (carving the scroll and shaping the body) but got there half way before got bored.
@@fpham8004 very neat, I’m really like the modular guitar design! Thanks for sharing your work!
@@ShamazMusic Thanks, I wish I was better at playing guitar than making them - but we can't have everything.