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Post by Bandura on Jan 14, 2006 16:08:17 GMT -5
Bill Vetzal has just completed his 3rd Kharkiv bandura with a fibreglass back. The instrument surpasses all previously made instruments of this type.
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Post by Podilsky on Jan 14, 2006 18:02:07 GMT -5
That's wonderful, but how does it sound?
Andrij H
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Post by Bandura on Jan 14, 2006 19:21:37 GMT -5
Number 2 was excellent especially in the middle range.
On number 3 a number of things were improved.
The back was made thinner, (one layer of clothe less), the soundboard has a specially made rose which really is the show piece of the instrument. The mechanism is smaller and even more accurately made. By setting it at a small angle rather than perpendicularly the buzzes characteristiclly associated with Kharkiv style banduras is no longer there.
The internal frame is made of aluminum tubing and very light.
The back has the black colour added already within the body clothe and thus if you scratch it - there is no colour change and the scratch is virtually invissible.
The tuning pegs are set into nylon bushings and are not effected by changes in humidity etc.
The sound is quite loud (one of the loudest I have heard from a Kharkiv style bandura). In this instrument reminds me of the sound quality of Roman Hrynkiv's instrument only not as long.
Vetzal is currently making 12 instruments for the Canadian Bandurist Capella. Each one is an improvement on his previous instrument. The Capella is gradually moving over to the Kharkiv Style of playing in order to play all of Khotkevych's works the way Khotkevych intended them to be played.
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