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[ctviolin]

wait...,

wait...,

Hang on a sec., if I could only stop slobbering on it, perhaps I could work this keyboard...
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[Ken Pollard]

[Ken Pollard]

I never did get around to making a video of the pochette being played, but was just this morning putting up a tune for my band, and realized I could actually do the same for this thread. So, I have a sound-file on SoundCloud. You should be able to get to it at this link --

https://soundcloud.com/dancefiddle/two-pochette-test

It starts out with my regular violin, the first one I built of the Bros-Amati/Denis pattern, using a decent pernambuco bow (maybe 80-100 years old, student bow, say $800).

The pochettes I am playing with a 1/4-size Glasser bow (fiberglas, new, about, say $60). Don't know how much difference a decent small pernambuco bow would make, but I guess not much.

[SooT]

I prefer the first of the Pochettes. I think it needs a soundpost.

[Ken Pollard]

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[SooT]

I think they are d@rn cool too CT. Easy to take on a plane.

[Ken Pollard]

Thanks, Craig and Sue.

Yes, I do want to try another design. Shorter, but wider. I still want to have something that will fit in a typical violin case, a 1/4-size. Reasons: (1) it looks like a violin case, so less explaining to do at the airport, and (2) I'm not interested in making cases (at least not so far).

So wide enough to just fit in a 1/4-size case with no extra padding on the sides. Also short enough for the 1/4-size case. I like the 1/4-size bow for this sort of tune work.

Here's one that has some nice features -- http://orgs.usd.edu/nmm/BowedStringsOther/Pochettes/2674Perry/PerryPochette2674.html

[WalterOB]

Thanks for posting the sound clip, Ken! I finished my first instrument a month or two ago (a pochette) and I was discouraged that it had a Bb wolf in first position on the E string. The person who gave me the mould for the pochette also had first position wolves in the F natural and Bb on the E string. Knowing this, I had left mine on the thick side, but I couldn't shake that nasty Bb. It is encouraging to see that you are in the same boat with the E. Certainly it seems like this has something to do with pattern - maybe the small lower bout width in relation to top length.
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[Ken Pollard]

Interesting to hear that, Walter. Did you put a soundpost in your pochette? My first, the one with the more-or-less normal bass bar and soundpost, doesn't seem to have issues with the e-string.

I'd sure like to see a photo of your pochette.

[WalterOB]

I did put a soundpost in, and man was that a job!

It looks like this website does not allow you to directly upload a picture, so I will have to link to the other unnamed site... I think you might have to e logged in to view the images.

http://www.maestronet.com/forum/index.php?/topic/328647-walter-obannons-bench/

[Ken Pollard]

Very nice, Walter. I worked on the design I did to avoid corners, a scroll, purfling, and f-holes. You took all of those on.

And I'll have to tell you, I haven't logged onto MN for many months now, but did so to see your photos, because I couldn't see them otherwise. I seem to have gotten away unscathed.

If you wanted to post them to this forum, Flickr is a photo hosting site, free, which used to be simple and easy but they've recently improved it so it is busier, slower, and uglier. It does still work, though. You can post images there and then link to them on this forum, fairly painlessly. Other photo hosting sites seem to work the same way.

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