Niel Gow Replication Pochette Fiddle

"Test driving" one of the new Niel Gow replication pochettes made by Rickert and Ringholz. The fiddle has an amazingly full sound considering the size (my camera and YouTube do not do it justice, trust me). If you need to you can attach a center-mounting chinrest without difficulty, though traditionally it was held like I've got it in the video.
If you were wondering, I'm running one of the Glasser braided carbon fiber bows across the strings. It is a wonderful little bow that you should try if given the chance.

A final note: I'm tuned to Bb and playing the lovely set dance The Drunken Gauger, a tune composed by the dance master Pat Barron.

Rickert and Ringholz main page:
http://www.fiddleandbowstore.com/servlet/StoreFront

Category:

Music

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• rickert
• ringholz
• pochette
• kit
• travel
• fiddle
• violin
• drunken
• gauger
• niel
• gow

[electricrobot]

Why don't you play a REAL fiddle, like a REAL man!?!?!

[TheAltoviol]

I love iT! who's the luthier that made this little thing?

[halynamyroslava]

!!!!!!!

[Pgitlitz]

I like them as well, as long as it's well played or is a cool tune. I play fiddle myself and use it for what it was mostly intended, which is to accompany dancing. I play and write in styles from all around the world. As long as the tune has 32 bars it can be used for the contra dancing which is a lot of the type of dance music I mostly play .

[Max0Inq]

@Pgitlitz I have nothing against musical nationalism, moreover I find it very valueble. But every time I watch pochette fiddles videos I hear the same music all the time. I know music is a matter of taste but this kind of folk really bores me. Eastern Europe, Middle and Far East - that's my type of music.

[Pgitlitz]

@Max0Inq, You sir are ignorant. This happens to be Irish music and many great composers drew on folk music as source material and inspiration for their compositions. There was a whole period of Romantic music era where all the composers were writing nationalist pieces doing this. Vaughn Williams's Theme from Thomas Tallis, Smetana's The Moldau are two lovely examples.Read about it all on wikipedia look up Musical Nationalism

[BluesMcGoo]

@Max0Inq I'm glad you took it in the manner it was intended. It's a sad day when we can't laugh.

[Max0Inq]

@BluesMcGoo Although this replay was meant to be sarcastic (I guess) I actually found it very funny and well-pointed. :D

[BluesMcGoo]

@Max0Inq It's a boring American conspiracy to annoy you. How's it working?

[Max0Inq]

Why can't people play Bach or anything classical instead of this boring American folk music.