BELOW IS INFO ABOUT AN EXPANDED CD VERSION OF MY WEBPAGE WHICH CONTAINS OVER 650 PHOTOS, 57 SOUND SAMPLES & ALSO AN APPROXIMATELY FOUR-MINUTE LONG VIDEO (+ 2 shorter videos). COST IS $10.00 US ($12.00 OVERSEAS) I pay postage. IF YOU LIVE IN EUROPE A 10 EURO NOTE IS OK. PAYMENT NOW ACCEPTED WITH "PAYPAL".
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DENNIS HAVLENA
3305 TRYBAN ROAD
CHEBOYGAN, MICHIGAN 49721
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Over the years many people have asked if I could post more photographs as
well as sound samples of the musical instrument-making projects on
my webpage. Trouble is that my webpage provider has a 1 megabyte total
limit for webpage space.
Because of this, I have made an off-line CD that has on it not
only my full (and expanded) webpage but also some 650
photographs that there is not room to put on my on-line webpage.
These photos show details of my instruments. The CD also contains 57
short .wav & .MP3 sound files to let you hear what these instruments
sound like.
In May 2007 I added a short video showing the playing of seven instruments
(3-string banjo; 20 lb LP tank "tambiro";Fiddle-Gurdy; full-size
4-string upright washtub bass; guitar-to-hardanger fiddle conversion;
Low-D tinwhistle and guitar-to-octave mandolin conversion.)
A couple more videos were added later.
Besides the new photos, sound files & videos, this CD contains
some additional information and updates on a number of the
instruments. It also contains information on and photos of a few
"new" instruments and ideas. The CD works thorough any web
browser -- as if it were an online webpage.
This CD also contains a 28 page booklet I wrote about 20 years ago
showing how one can easily learn to play the fiddle using a
tablature/paper-"fret" system. It contains tablature and playing
instructions for 21 fiddle tunes. This booklet is not very fancy
at all, but it works.
If you'd like a copy of this CD, please send me $10.00 (U.S).
I'll pay the shipping. If you live outside the USA and Canada,
please send the equivalent of about $12 US (or 10 Euros) to make
up for the additional postage.
Please send to this address:
Dennis Havlena
3305 Tryban Road
Cheboygan, Michigan
49721
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Here's a listing of the new photos and new sound files that are
included on this CD:
LATER NOTE: Because I have been very busy, There are quite a few
additions to my CD that I have not had time to list here.
EVEN LATER NOTE: Updating the list below has really gotten away from
me now -- I do intend to bring it up to date.
- Make a 4-string "Doodle-Bass" -- with the same 40" string-length
as a stand-up bass (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLES)
- How to make a very nice sounding and loud pickup for the
"Doodle-Bass" for a few dollars.
- How to build a hurdy gurdy for under $20 (NEW PHOTOS,
SOUND SAMPLE)
- How to add a 2nd melody string to the $20 Hurdy Gurdy
(same as above)
- How to make a Hurdy Gurdy from a guitar (NEW PHOTOS,
SOUND SAMPLE)
- Make a real, 4-string double-bass using an upright
washtub (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Make a simple Acoustic, 40" string-length practice
bass converted from an old guitar (NEW PHOTOS)
- Build a Bass Kalimba - a String Bass Alternative (NEW PHOTOS)
- Build a "KORIMBA" (a Kalimba that plays like a Kora)
(NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Make a "Harp-Kora" -- a simple 2-sided harp that plays
like a Kora (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- A few "Involuntary Twangamadiddles" (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND
SAMPLES)
- Bobby-pin Kalimba (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Simple bellows for smallpipes & Uillean bagpipes (NEW
PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Make a simple wash-tub bass (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Make wound music strings (NEW PHOTOS)
- K-Mart/Wal-Mart sells 400' of e-string for $2.99 (NEW PHOTO,
SOUND SAMPLE)
- Build a KORA (NEW PHOTOS)
- How to make a low D tinwhistle (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND
SAMPLES)
- 2-octave kalimba made from lawn-rake tines (NEW PHOTOS,
SOUND SAMPLE)
- Build a simple 5-string fretless banjo in a weekend (NEW
PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Add a drone to your tinwhistle (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLES)
- Turn a tinwhistle into a "no-hole, bugle-scaled" whistle
(NEW PHOTO, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Make a bowed psaltery (NEW PHOTOS)
- Make a 3 string fretless banjo from a cookie tin (NEW
PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Build a conduit-tubing dulcimer (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND
SAMPLE)
- How to build a simple 12-course Hammered Dulcimer (NEW
PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Musical Saw - how to find one & play it (inexpensively)
(NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- How to convert a Guitar into an Octave-Mandolin (NEW
PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Build a "whirligig" (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Make an extremely quiet chanter for pipe practice, from
a tinwhistle (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- How to make a fiddle very quiet - for late night
diddling (SOUND SAMPLE)
- Highland pipes made from PVC piping (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND
SAMPLE)
- Construct pipe bags from naugahyde/vinyl (NEW PHOTOS)
- Build a simple, foolproof check-valve for Highland pipes
(NEW PHOTOS)
- Convert a regular fiddle into a Hardanger fiddle (NEW
PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLES)
- Ready-made didjeridu sold at K-Mart for 97 cents (NEW
PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- Build this Bagpipe Case with room for everything (NEW PHOTOS)
- Build a nearly zero cost flexible fife
- NEW FOR THIS CD: A few photos & wav sound file of a
square-body guitar. There are no construction details
for this guitar yet (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- NEW FOR THIS CD: add a 7th string to your guitar
(NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- NEW FOR THIS CD: simple "connected rhythmic spoons"
(NEW PHOTOS)
- NEW FOR THIS CD: A few photos of my most recent
kalimba, built in three hours (NEW PHOTOS)
- NEW FOR THIS CD: Golf-tube 'pan pipes' (NEW PHOTOS,
SOUND SAMPLE)
- NEW FOR THIS CD: A bobby-pin Kalimba that plays like
a Kora (NEW PHOTOS, SOUND SAMPLE)
- NEW FOR THIS CD: Several tunes I "created" years ago
using a program called "Musica 2" and a Radio Shack
"Color Computer" (NEW SOUND - TUNES)
- NEW FOR THIS CD: My 28 page booklet on "How to play the
fiddle" containing instructions and tablature for 21
fiddle tunes
- Make a pressman's hat (NEW PHOTOS)
- Also, there are new sound files in the section on
playing "Amazing Grace" on the bagpipe (NEW SOUND FILES)
THANKS! Dennis Havlena
This CD is available for $10.00 US (I pay postage).
Please order by PAYPAL or by mail.
IF YOU LIVE OUTSIDE OF THE US OR CANADA, PLEASE CLICK ON THIS PAYPAL LINK:
Thank you! Dennis Havlena My mailing address is: Dennis Havlena 3305 Tryban Road Cheboygan, Michigan 49721
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