Building an Ottavino Spinet
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- Опубликовано: 25 дек 2022
- Step-by-step build of this mini-harpsichord. These are Spinets, where the strings run at an angle so the case is more or less triangular.
Making an Ottavino Virginal: • Building an Ottavino (...
Marquetry Tutorial: • Marquetry Tutorial
Marquetry Tutorial II: • Marquetry Tutorial II
One of my Customers, David Lien, really makes the Ottavino sing! • #2: "Fugue in F Minor"...
After my previous video, making an Ottavino Virginal, many viewers asked for plans. This time around I kept detailed notes as well as plans and can provide a Construction Manual in addition to the plans. Contact me at douglasnadel@gmail.com if interested. 
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You know what? Now I wanna build a Bohlen-Pierce trittavino spinet
43 keys, 3 tritaves + 4 notes
I’m so glad you decided to class up your primitive instrument by playing The Doors on it!
I love the tune you chose to play on it - Ray Manzarek of The Doors would've been proud 😃👍
All that work to make a musical instrument? Yes, and it gives me hope for humankind. We should spend more time making beauty than manufacturing warfare. Ya think?
I’ve learned to do maintenance and minor tuning and repair on my free-reed wind instrument. I truly understand that musical instruments require the kind of patience and precision shown here. Kudos and much respect to Mr. Nadel.
Straight from the get-go, "And, yeah, I'm going to make three of them at the same time" Whoa!!!
Whew, that is some very nice work. You've got some real talent! I am very impressed with how the entire thing turned out and how you made it look relatively easy which I know it is not LOL!
Buitaful, ideda, design, exicution, and sound. I heard a restored antique harpsicord that had always been well cared for, about 70 years ago, this one brought back a lot of good memories. THANKS!!
What an insane build
i have plans for clavichord, and watching you do this gave me hope! I'll have to wait until i have the funds for lumber, time, and access to a shop, but i'm more excited than ever thanks to this video.
great video! love the use of double sided tape to cut small bits on the table saw
I'm from Brazil your videos are very good
Beautiful workmanship!
wow amazing ❤❤
The sound is as beautiful as the woodwork. Just two octaves are good enough for such a rich instrument.
Thank you! You are too kind.
I am impressed, well done
Very nice, I definitely prefer these spinets to the virginal.
Excellent presentation.
Many thanks.
Awesome work as always!
This is amazing
this looks like magic genius to me! beautiful work
Really really nice!
Nice work. 👏 ✌ 👏 ❤
This is so, so cool. Thank you!
Long tuning hammer...
I did the same modification for my lyre.... lol.
I'm going to design a portable keyboard instrument now that I've seen this.
Great video. Thank you for sharing.
Fascinating. Thank you.
Beautiful work, on both the video and the Spinets. Thanks for your efforts! It’s a wonder these things were made before modern carpentry!
Thanks so much!
In pre-industrial times (before 1725) such things were made entirely by hand, thus only the wealthy could afford these luxury items.
Wow Doug - you continue to outdo yourself. Hope all is well! MRW
Thanks Kim! We miss you!
Amazing
Amazing work, I would love to have a go a making one of these.
Great job,bery clean workbench,fore a bery nice job you do.
thank you . wow
Very informative and beautiful craftmanship there. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Maestro!
I had to rack my brain to recall that tune you were playing. It's "Light My Fire" by The Doors!
C'mon, baby, light my fire!
That was cool
Lol, “Light My Fire”
That melody in the end is ....from the intro ; Light my fire from The Doors 😊
Great work Doc. Would love to see how you do your veneer inlays. I would do mine finish side down on masking tape.
Thanks Alan. I use a sheet of contact paper to hold the veneer down. Check out my "Marquetry Tutorial" videos
Wow!!! It's cool to see an extensive guide on how to build one from scratch!
About the Jacks, are they available online or have you had them commissioned?
Thanks! The jacks are from Zuckermann's, www.zhi.net
Nice
The ottavino (sounding E4-F6) has the density, timbre, intensity, and tonal quality of a soprano singer while the normal instrument (sounding E3-F5) has the density, timbre, intensity, and tonal quality of an alto singer!!!
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Amazing video and instrument you and 1 other person have made me want to a make a keyboard style instrument but yeesh those must be expensive to make the jacks and tuning pins are around 200 by them selves
You're right, the hardware was the most expensive part. The wood and veneers are pretty cheap.
@@douglasnadel1028the reason I knew is because I wanted to make a instrument that's similar and I heard you mention zukerman (probably spelled it wrong) harpsichords and I looked up saw the hard ware did some multiplication and yeah though I thought the veneering would also be expensive probably because it looks so great
@@Snoobert. You can make your own jacks. I find that getting these little Ottavini to play is hard enough and the reliability and uniformity of the plastic jacks are worth the price.
superbe... very nicely done🙏🏻
How much larger would it have to be to have three octaves?
Can could the register be lowered?
It would just be proportional, about 50% bigger all around.
Hi! I love your videos, and I'm planning on making one of these with a friend. Are there any measurements and angles for the parts?
Thanks! email me douglasnadel@gmail.com
seems like a cool video, lots of interesting views & insights into the process of making this, but i mainly came here to hear it played, and with some browsing, a scene of that doesn’t seem to be in here. 😁😅
See the link in the description
This instrument is wonderful! Is this or a similar one somewhere available.
One of them still available, email me if you're serious douglasnadel@gmail.com
Amazing. I'm not understanding why the bridge is V shaped? That makes the middle strings shorter than the lower and higher strings? Do you know why they do it like that? Thanks! I kinda want one of these now 😂
That's a good question! Have never seen an explanation for that. One of these (the floral design) is still available for sale, email me if you're interested douglasnadel@gmail.com
Can you send a pdf of the measurements of this instrument? And what wires should I use?
The strings are 0.007" High-Tensile Iron from Zuckermann's. Email me douglasnadel@gmail.com for plans
@@douglasnadel1028 i did :)
Raye Manzareke, his almain
Did you use any resources to help, like a book or anything? Looking for some more info.
See my earlier video, an Ottavino Virginal ruclips.net/video/ZHC6OGgImpY/видео.html. There's almost no information out there on building Ottavini but I put together a nice Construction Manual for this Spinet. email me at douglasnadel@gmail.com
Hi Douglas! Do you have CAD drawings to sell of this instruments?
Will send to you by email. I have a detailed construction manual and some basic drawings, not CAD.
I’m Iñaki, and I have sent you an email. Thanks a lot Douglas.
Can't understand why this video has less views than twerking. World is ending.
Anyway - great job man!
Ha ha and thanks!
That is awesome! Do you still sell/ commission some?
I really like your videos :D
Thank you! Yes, these will be up for sale next week. Email me if you're interested dnadel@dh.org
What were you playing at 19:22? It sounds very familiar, but I can't place it.
C'mon baby, Light My Fire!
Check out this video for someone who can actually play
ruclips.net/video/wByUqzTqd_w/видео.html
@douglasnadel1028 That's it! You did just fine...Thanks!
Hello, can you send me this manual that you mentioned in the description? I already sent you an email Thank you in advance May God continue to bless you
I built one of these about 10 years ago. Things went smoothly until I got the the plectra. They were too short and stiff, the keys are too short in the spinet configuration. Playing is very hard and not reliable. Other configs have longer keys but string spacing is still too narrow. Builders beware.
You are exactly right. I had to trim the plectra to a very thin point to voice it.
I don't think the Ottavino is a child's instrument.
The name means "higher octaves"
A piano has 88 notes and a harpsichord has 61 notes.
Your instrument has 26 notes
I suspect that the Ottavino was made as an addition to existing Harpsichords , probably set on top of ,or next to, a harpsichord so the Harpsichordist could play music written for the piano.
I think they were real instruments that were paired up with full size harpsichords.
Edit:
I just read up on classic Harpsichords and found out that the Harpsichords were eventually made with a second row of keys installed to extend the range.
So I guess the Ottavino is a way of retrofitting older harpsichords to have a similar range as the newer ones.
There were some instruments called "Mother and Child" where the ottavino was placed on top of the full-size harpsichord and the harpsichord's jacks could poke up into the ottavino's bottom so you could play both at once
that last spinnet sounded a bit out of tune, or maybe it was just the phrase you played that sounded slightly off