Rebec Fiddle
A SURE-FIRE "conversation
Mountain Lap Dulcimer
If
you are looking for an attractive professional Dulcimer, look no
further. I made the top of book-matched Sitka spruce; the sides are
gorgeous curly maple, and look at the beautiful back; book-matched
birds-eye maple trimmed with walnut. I carved the elegant scrolled
head from hard maple and installed the Champion tuners. Notice the
fret board; my favorite wood, walnut with maple support. The finish
is Tung Oil
polished with pure beeswax. This could be a welcomed Christmas
present for most anyone.
Only $300.00, plus $18.00 for shipping and handling.
Mountain Lap Dulcimer--Number 110. SOLD
piece", this medieval-style fiddle makes a highly decorative wall ornament for the music or game room. More than just a piece of interesting bric-a-brac, the instrument can actually be played and has a very unique and pleasing musical quality. Early bowed instruments, ancestors of the modern violin, were of this general shape, probably due to the influence of the Arabian two string rehab from which the later European Rebec seems to have been developed. Violins, shaped as we know them, did not appear until the 16th century, developed by the Amati brothers from basic lines of Gasparo Bertolotti's instruments.
This instrument is of the late slender Rebec style, using a violin-type neck which probably a music critic would say places it in the Klein-Geigen group of three-string fiddles. True
Rebecs were basically one structure, body and neck, with a step-down at the soundboard.
The neck is constructed of pecan wood, the body is carved from basswood, the top or sound board is white pine, and the fretboard is maple died black. The tailpiece is made of brass, and the bow is cherry wood.
At this time the Rebec Fiddle is not for sale.
