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Bouzouki
The Irish bouzouki has a tear
drop shape, flat back and eight strings. This particular instrument is
made of Sitka spruce (sound board), padauk (back and sides), edge grain walnut
(neck), and a Brazilian rosewood bridge and fretboard. I like to use Schaller
tuners. String length is 640mm making for a very responsive instrument
with good volume and sustain. Like all my instruments, the soundboard is
successfully designed and manipulated to give an even response through bass
and treble notes.
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French Transitional Guitar
This is a historical instrument,
fashioned after
the French builder, Coffe Gougette, who was associated with the instrument
building centre of Mirecourt, France in the early nineteenth century. The original instrument was built of
satinwood, spruce, ebony and ivory. Shown here, it is built of tulipwood (back
and sides), cedar soundboard, ebony (fretboard, binding and bridge), holly
(inlays and binding), with additional inlays of lignum vitae and tulipwood. The neck is made of
Honduran mahogany. The heart inlaid into the top is made of ebony and holly
wood. The scale is a 640 mm scale. This is a marvelous instrument with a
warm full tone that projected well for such a small bodied instrument.
| Dulcimer
One of my very early instruments, this is
a brash little dulcimer, 38" long by 9" wide and 2" deep. Made
in Toronto, of Eastern birdseye maple, sitka spruce with ebony trim, fretboard
and friction pegs. This instrument has moved to the mountains where it
belongs.
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David Cureton, RR #3, Gravenhurst, ON, P1P
1R3, CANADA, 705-687-7832
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