Kantele making CD, Downloads, Plans
NEW!! Kantele Making CD-ROM 2008
Out
now!! The new improved
version of my Kantele Making CD has the video diary of making a 5
string along with the new playing guide The is a plan for a
piccolo kantele and the template for my electric kantele as well as the
5, 10,
and
15 string kantele.I now include a chapter on making a case with a video exerpt of how to outfit it to protect your instrument!
"The CD is most informative and well worth the money paid. I would recommend it to any novice or upcoming instrument maker or as a great resource for the experienced, Michael is very helpful via e-mail and responds to all queries in a timely and easy to understand manner".
Ben Corby, Australia
also: Carole Beasleys Blog follows the making of the Ten String here!
Another maker, Julian Fitton here
and J. Manuel Bonilla fron Spain here
**If you have purchased the Kantele Cd previously there is now a serialised playing guide on Youtube(see below). Plus I will be making a special download for past purchasers of the CD which has the page and video for making a case for the Kantele , just give me an email for more details.
YouTube Video CD-Rom video preview
now as a DOWNLOAD!!
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Kantele Making CD (Digital version)Kantele Making CD (Digital version) (multimedia download)Download: £7.50 (For Broadband users only, big download!) This is the digital version of the complete Kantele making CD-rom. You can download this, unzip the files (use 7-zip or winzip) burn the files to a disk and use as a CD-rom, or simply use from the folder. Contains 5, 10, 15 string kantele plans as well as the piccolo and electric notes, many extra things to discover.... |
or
Go to my Lulu.com shop page here!!
For the time being I am selling the CD as a complete download, or broken into individual plans
Notes on printing the plans
You may need to play with the settings of your printer to get the printout right, usually if you use adobe reader, set at 100% you should be ok. Some people with very high definition printers found they had to lower the print quality to get a clearer printout.
If the plans are out of scale by 1 or two mm then I wouldnt worry, one of the nice things of making an open strung instrument is that you have more freedom with measurements and stringing, When I first began this project I was tempted not to include any measurements at all, in the spirit of the original Finnish makers working by eye, within the tradtion, but in the end I have included enough to keep most happy while still working to a template system of construction. several people making this instrument as their first musical instrument leave out some of the decorative features, like the bird head, or rebate on the underside of the head.
To use the plans Simply Print these off onto tracing paper using your own printer, match up the printouts and tape together! I have left a big overlap to cover different paper sizes and also to aid collating the drawings.
