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drickert |
www.fiddleandbowblog.com
Playing Since: 1972
Experience Level: Expert/Professional
Interests:
[Teaching] [Helping]
Occupation: Owner of lutherie specializing in fiddles
Gender: Male
Age: 72
My Instruments:
Maggini copy (2007), Reinholdt Schmidt (c. 1990), Rickert & Ringholz Octave Type I, Rickert & Ringholz Octave Type II, Rickert & Ringholz 'Cradle of Harmony' Baritone (like the one Darol Anger played with Vasen at Wintergrass 2008, German Meisel, various pochettes, kits and travel fiddles of my design, historic reproductions as well as modern.
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphies, Hooley, most of Darol Anger's bands, Natalie Haas's various groups, Liz Carroll, James Scott Skinner (long deceased, but the FIRST to ever record a violin as well as being the "Strathspey King"), Special Ed and the Short Bus
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Created 3/24/2008
Last Visit 3/29/2009
Industrial Designer specializing in bowed string instrument design (Master designer but only an OK luthier, except pochettes--work with lutherie wiz Shep Jones of Fiddarci Lutherie) Own Don Rickert Research & Design, Rickert & Ringholz Musical Instruments and www.FiddleandBowStore.com. Maintain www.FiddleandBowBlog.com. Teach Industrial Design at the Georgia Institute of Technology ('Georgia Tech')
