For my birthday my wife got me a fiddle. It’s an instrument I’ve always wanted to play ever since I was a child.
It’s simultaneously an easy instrument with incredibly difficult technique. Having a ton of fun with it.
I hope I’m not annoying her too bad 😅
@mykie grabs ear muffs. LoL 🎻🤣
Oh and happy birthday.
@skyfire747 @mykie
Should have got a viole de gamba
Fiddle with frets strung like a guitar 🎸
If guitarist knew this, there would probably be a lot more players
#EarlyMusic
@AccordionBruce @skyfire747 @mykie
the fretless part isn't the part i struggled with. it's getting a clean, non-screechy tone with the bow. you have a beginning violinist's tone inches from your right ear. it's quite loud. :)
@paul_ipv6 @skyfire747 @mykie
Need a Cécilium
Lute-shaped reed organ from the 1860s
With a mechanical “bow” on the front that simply moved an internal bellows back and forth
A beautiful fingerboard of tiny buttons on the neck triggers a web of valved reeds inside 🎻 ⚙️ 🪗
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/504434
#EarlyMusic? 😹 #accordion #ClassicalMusic
@paul_ipv6 @skyfire747 @mykie
Larger cousin of perhaps my favourite early free reed, the Melophone*
Like a miniature lap-cello with a push-pump on the bottom to control its bellows-fed reed organ insides
Again fantastic metal button-board on the neck. I would probably start crying if I got to play one of these some day 😭
*Not the Mellophone horn 🎺
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/501776
#TheMet #Accordion #Harmonium #cello
Mykie Frankenstein 🎃🦇🕸️
Anthony 🇦🇺🦘🐨🪃🌟✨️🕯🏏🧩🎭🪁
AccordionBruce
Paul_IPv6
