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specials for bagpipes
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Specials for bagpipes: technical drawings of bagpipes, tips for making bagpipes.
Bock, bagpipe, cornamuse, practice chanter.
Bock, bagpipe, cornamuse, practice chanter.
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Jul 8, 2005
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David Rubio died on Saturday 21 October, 2000 at the age of 65.
Since the mid-1960s the name of David Rubio has been famous in the musical world as a maker of stringed instruments: guitars, lutes, harpsichords, violins, violas and cellos. Two string quartets play his instruments exclusively, and one is named the Rubio Quartet in his honour.
Most instrument makers enter the profession via formal training courses or apprenticeships, but David's route was altogether less conventional and more colourful. From a London childhood, he went to study as a medical student at Trinity College, Dublin. Finding out late in the course that colour-blindness would debar him from his chosen career in surgery, he turned to his other consuming interest of the time and did something rare outside stories and folksongs: he ran away to join the gypsies. Moving to Spain, he made a meagre living as a flamenco guitarist, accompanying traditional singers and dancers. This is when he acquired the sobriquet "Rubio", after his red beard: he was born David Spink ...
Since the mid-1960s the name of David Rubio has been famous in the musical world as a maker of stringed instruments: guitars, lutes, harpsichords, violins, violas and cellos. Two string quartets play his instruments exclusively, and one is named the Rubio Quartet in his honour.
Most instrument makers enter the profession via formal training courses or apprenticeships, but David's route was altogether less conventional and more colourful. From a London childhood, he went to study as a medical student at Trinity College, Dublin. Finding out late in the course that colour-blindness would debar him from his chosen career in surgery, he turned to his other consuming interest of the time and did something rare outside stories and folksongs: he ran away to join the gypsies. Moving to Spain, he made a meagre living as a flamenco guitarist, accompanying traditional singers and dancers. This is when he acquired the sobriquet "Rubio", after his red beard: he was born David Spink ...
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I am particularly interested in the guitar of the early 19th century. The instruments described as "Romantic guitars" or "Biedermeier Gitarren" are of smaller shape. They comply with the acoustic aesthetics and musical demands of this period.
The presented photos on this page are reproductions of instruments by the most famous guitarmakers of the time:
Stauffer, Lacote and Panormo. Models of other guitars, terz-guitars, more string-guitars etc. are at my disposal either with drawn up formes or construction plans.
For detailed information please contact me.
Prices between € 3000.- and € 4500.- depending on model and design.
Apart from conventional standard and reconditioning repairs I also carry out extensive restoration in my workshop. In most cases the aim of restauration is a playable instrument for musicians. Depending on condition and rarity of the instrument a pure conservative work may be more important. This decision must be made with the owner before restoration. I see conservative work as making each step of the restoration reversible. Therefore it is of utmost importance to use only soluble glutin-glues which have been used traditionally for centuries by violin makers.Another priority is the preservation of all parts of the instrument in its complete substance including the varnish. The replacement of complete parts in case of destruction or worm damage is always the last and very worst choice of possibilities.
Due to the revival of classic and early romantic literature in connection with performance practize the instruments of this period meet with increasing interest. Besides famous names as Lacote and Stauffer you can find quite a few "second best" makers who built excellent instruments on a very high standard of acoustics and craftsmanship.
During the last 15 years I have restored a considerable number of instruments for customers worldwide. They are beeing used for concert performance or CD-recordings ...
The presented photos on this page are reproductions of instruments by the most famous guitarmakers of the time:
Stauffer, Lacote and Panormo. Models of other guitars, terz-guitars, more string-guitars etc. are at my disposal either with drawn up formes or construction plans.
For detailed information please contact me.
Prices between € 3000.- and € 4500.- depending on model and design.
Apart from conventional standard and reconditioning repairs I also carry out extensive restoration in my workshop. In most cases the aim of restauration is a playable instrument for musicians. Depending on condition and rarity of the instrument a pure conservative work may be more important. This decision must be made with the owner before restoration. I see conservative work as making each step of the restoration reversible. Therefore it is of utmost importance to use only soluble glutin-glues which have been used traditionally for centuries by violin makers.Another priority is the preservation of all parts of the instrument in its complete substance including the varnish. The replacement of complete parts in case of destruction or worm damage is always the last and very worst choice of possibilities.
Due to the revival of classic and early romantic literature in connection with performance practize the instruments of this period meet with increasing interest. Besides famous names as Lacote and Stauffer you can find quite a few "second best" makers who built excellent instruments on a very high standard of acoustics and craftsmanship.
During the last 15 years I have restored a considerable number of instruments for customers worldwide. They are beeing used for concert performance or CD-recordings ...
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Making a Quena:
note that quena making is not a science. The method presented here does not guarantee an excellent instrument. There is no standard. Precision is not a requirement.
But if you make one, you can make more, and improve each new one.
The following hole positions for a quena in G are patterned after an excellent Peruvian quena that has the name Roger inscribed at the foot. The hole positions for the quena in F were extrapolated from those of the kena in G; I have made several good F quenas -- both bamboo and CPVC -- with these extrapolation. The hole positions for a quenacho in D are patterned after a Peruvian quenacho of uncertain origin. This quenacho has a small inside diameter as quenachos go, and its diameter is only slightly greater than the diameter of irrigation pipe ...
You can make a quena out of any kind of tube: bamboo, cane, wood, metal, plastic, clay -- even bone. The material may have a little effect on the sound of the instrument, but, whatever the material, the flute you make will still have the distinctive and beautiful sound of a quena.
I do not have ready access to supplies of bamboo or cane, and I do not have the equipment to turn wood into tubes, so I make my quenas from local materials -- the plastic pipe I find at a nearby home improvement store.
The most readily available plastic tubing and the most easily worked is PVC or CPVC water pipe from your local hardware or home improvement store or from internet mail-order suppliers, such as www.usplastic.com.
note that quena making is not a science. The method presented here does not guarantee an excellent instrument. There is no standard. Precision is not a requirement.
But if you make one, you can make more, and improve each new one.
The following hole positions for a quena in G are patterned after an excellent Peruvian quena that has the name Roger inscribed at the foot. The hole positions for the quena in F were extrapolated from those of the kena in G; I have made several good F quenas -- both bamboo and CPVC -- with these extrapolation. The hole positions for a quenacho in D are patterned after a Peruvian quenacho of uncertain origin. This quenacho has a small inside diameter as quenachos go, and its diameter is only slightly greater than the diameter of irrigation pipe ...
You can make a quena out of any kind of tube: bamboo, cane, wood, metal, plastic, clay -- even bone. The material may have a little effect on the sound of the instrument, but, whatever the material, the flute you make will still have the distinctive and beautiful sound of a quena.
I do not have ready access to supplies of bamboo or cane, and I do not have the equipment to turn wood into tubes, so I make my quenas from local materials -- the plastic pipe I find at a nearby home improvement store.
The most readily available plastic tubing and the most easily worked is PVC or CPVC water pipe from your local hardware or home improvement store or from internet mail-order suppliers, such as www.usplastic.com.
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