Making a Pochette Series - Part 1 - The mold
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- A new series just started! In the first part I make the template and mold for the new instrument.
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I am a now retired man who has embarked on a journey:
When I was five years old I had three goals:
Build a ship.
Sail to Tahiti.
And learn to play many instruments.
I fell in love with the Lute , Viola da Gamba and Pontian Lyra before I was ten. I did not learn about the Pochette until I was in my twenties.
I did not know about the theorbo back then.
I feel I am too old to build an 80 foot sailboat. Much less learn to sail it. Tahiti is no longer the place I had heard about as a kid. But I can still learn to play.
The only way I can afford to get a theorbo, Viola da Gamba, Pochette, or Pontian Lyra is to learn to build one.
I have built my contrabass canjo as my first experimental musical instrument. I bought a used Bass amp from the junk store. My canjo sounds great on it. I have tuned to low A. Right now I am waiting for paint to dry, so that I can put a preamp into a wooden box.
I have bought a violin kit to build a cigar box violin.
Bas Baa Black sheep sound better everyday, on my canjo and I am working on learning to read music.
Some of my dreams are old, old but I am happy to say I have found a place in my life where I can start reaching out and doing something about them.
How do I build on my experience and become luthier? I am reading everything I can lay my hands on. Do you have any Books to recommend? Can you help me find drawings or plans for medieval instruments, particularly those of the violin family.
I plan on working with mostly traditional hand tools. I love pretty but functional tools and plan to make many of my own tools.
I feel very alone and lost here in the Panhandle of Texas.
I will be back
Cool! The pocket violin of the dancing masters of the Baroque!
That is the story that I have heard but I don't know if it's write. Have to find out.
Really excellent video. Very clearly explained.
Good to hear, thank you!
This instrument is amazing. Now I'm hooked and have to build one. If you get a chance please give general measurements in your next video so I might build and follow your lessons at the same time. Thank you for making these videos.
Good to hear that you like it! I am still collecting the measurements needed and are under copyright. I will do something about it in the future though.
Great to see you well.
Looking forward to the series.
Good to hear Dale!
Looking forward to the rest of this very interesting series on this interesting instrument. Thank you.
Hello Crist! Good to hear that you like the new series!
Waiting for the next part!
Goot to hear that you like it!
Very nice! This will be an interesting series!
Hello Gervase. Good to hear that you find the new series interesting!
What an interesting and unique instrument. I hope you finish this series soon.
Good to hear that you like it, David! Part 2 will be there on the 11th of January.
I never knew I needed this in my life (since I have never heard of a pochette). Excited for this series!
Haha! I totally recognize the feeling!!! The first time I saw a pochette was when I was studying in Cremona and immediately new I wanted to make one!!! then it took me almost 20 years to start!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@maestrokimon as long as it doesn’t take you that long to finish it, we’ll be good 😁
@@alexclausen5376 Nooo! of course not!!! Now that the train left the station it doesn't stop anymore!!!
Yay a new series! Already looking forward to the rest!
Hello Nick! every two months, like the previous series! It's a small instruments but needs its time!
so great your working god bles you
Thank you so much for your kind words!
Hi Kimon,
I wonder if you would please consider makeing a video on touching-up the varnish on violins? I know you have a video about varnishing new ones, but do you have any techniques for just dealing with scuffs, scratches and small pieces of new inset wood?
I am an amateur and as a hobby I just fix beaten up old violins to pass them on to children to learn on, so I have to keep my costs low because I do it for free. Any tips you have would be most gratefully received.
Keep up the excellent videos, and thank you.
Kind Regards
Andrew
Hello Andrew. Thank you for the suggestion. I have tried to make this kind of video in the past but it is very hard to film the varnish. It appears so different in video according to the filming angle and light source that it is almost impossible (for me at least) to make a accurate video. I will keep trying though!
I have drawings for a pochette but not like this one. Your new series has come at a very opportune time so I am extremely interested as I am between projects. Where might I be able to purchase detailed drawings.....
There are several different pochettes made. The one we had in the museum of the school in Cremona was also different. Unfortunately there are no blueprints for sell.
Thank you.
At 3:24 he is measuring at it show the length. A little math and you could find the rest of body.
I like the start of this new series. Just curious about the violin built in the first series. Has it found a good home? Will it be played professionally?
Hello Max. For the time being it is still here. I haven't hade the time to show it to people, the lockdown doesn't help either...
5 centuries later, this instrument will be displayed in a museum, right at the Kimon corner.
I hope this comment will also be printed there.
Such a cool video!! I have one question - if I know that the overhangs of the plates are not even on an original instrument, should I try to account for this when making the template for my mold? Or would the difference of 1-2mm not have significant impact on the sound of the finished instrument?
Thank you!
If the outline of the instruments is damaged and isn't overlapping evenly you could use the purfling as reference. In any case I don't expect it to influence the sound.
@@maestrokimon thanks!!
Hi is there a set of measurements to follow so you know where to cut out the space for the corner blocks. Thanks
Hello Maestro! I am wondering if the blade in your saw is any special carbide one to be able to cut the metal like this?
Aluminum is pretty soft so I used a simple wood blade.
@@maestrokimon thanks!
What if the center joint of the back is slighltly angled? If the luthier put the two billets in the vise and planed those toghether it could be that the two pieces match without being truly on the centerline
Just curious to know if what i say its possible
That is indeed possible. You can plain them together but will always have to control if they are stil 90 degrees. if not the centerline will not be a line but a curve as the error becomes bigger with the arching going higher!
Hello Maestro, Would it be possible for you to publish a copy of the Pochette picture on your site here I hope this is something that can be done without violating any copy rite or agreements between you and the museum that supplied the picture. Thank you.
Yo, yo, van Belgie. Echt mooie uitleg video hoe moet het doen. Het is echt mooie verasing en ik wacht op het verdere videos.
Hallo Peter! Fijn om te horen dat je de nieuwe series leuk vindt!!
Someone saw the VSA lecture😂
Sorry? I don't follow you!
@@maestrokimon my bad, the Violin Society of America just released a lecture on the Stradivari Pochette. Thought you saw the lecture and decided to make one
@@NCSUFutbol I thought that as well! Guess it’s just a coincidence though
@@NCSUFutbol lol, I just realized who you are, this is Mitchell btw.
That is a odd coincidence! I decided to make this instrument as early as Mei 2020 although it is something that I want to do since studying in Cremona. Do you have a link to the lecture? I couldn't find anything on the site.
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