| Blog series by JonJ | updated 694 days ago | 3 parts | 1658 reads | 36 comments total |
Part 1: Wheelharp: my first attempt at trying to simulate bowed strings with a keyboard
This is a little more detailed look at a project I posted a while back, the wheelharp…I am sorry to rehash it, but there were a few folks who inquired about some more details, and I had not had a chance to find my old pictures until today. Sorry to pester everyone else! Have you ever had a thought, and wondered if it has been done before? Several years ago, I was adjusting my hurdy gurdy, which is an instrument invented in the middle ages that uses a rosined wheel to bow the s...
Part 2: Wheelharp: my first attempt at trying to simulate bowed strings with a keyboard
After getting the frame built, it was time to do what I was afraid was going to be a nightmare…getting the plywood skin to bend around the frame without having a break in one of the inner plys. I didn’t use any fancy woods here- a $14 sheet of underlayment from the local lumberyard. I did take the time to go through the stack and find one that had no voids visible from the edge. Then it was off to a local mill to get one of the plys taken off with a large door sander. About 3 pass...
Part 3: More on the wheelharp
This is a another installment of the construction of my instrument, the wheelharp http://lumberjocks.com/projects/3563which is designed to try and mechanically emulate the instruments of the viol family- bass, cello, viola, and violin. There have been multiple attempts at doing this over the past 500 years or so, and this one is quite a bit different than anything I have run across so far. It is interesting to see how how other builders solved the problems I had. Many times in history the...
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