This part of our showroom is dedicated to custom instruments we have made for various customers over the years, grouped by category. We have here a collection of things for every conceivable acoustic genre, making our gallery viewing as enjoyable as when we play free bingo. We have not listed the prices here, because the contents of this gallery span 10 years or more.
Please enquire for up-to-date prices, as we can make anything you see here (and probably most anything else your heart desires). Please feel free to hop back to our home page for our contact information. We hope you enjoy the gallery of images here at Orphic Airs. Do keep on coming back!
DULCIMERS
Dove motif soundholes
Offset outside, for upright players. The original Western Woods model
Harp Dulcimer made for an esoteric lodge, featuring their symbolism.
Custom Daisy motif, collection of Julie Langendoerf.
Our first Epinette, a dulcimer ancestor from France.
Our first historical Hummle,sans strings and tuners, a dulcimer ancestor from Sweden.
Shepherd Harp from Musicmakers' plans.
4 views of our Trossingen Small, with cherry top, bone bridge and case.
Our first Anglo Saxon style lyre (not historical).
Seagull motif Wing-shaped psaltery.
A small Kantele, a traditional Finnish psaltery.
Heart motif wing-shaped psaltery
"Dirt Burst" antique finish Wing-shaped.
An older model of the Hog-nosed psaltery
A discontinued model, the small bass psaltery
A series of small psalteries.
Stars motif wing-shaped psaltery.
Custom Single-bridged wing-shaped psaltery.
Electric bass (collection of Steve Inman).
None photographed at the moment.
Big party drum with a 12" Remo Weatherking head
A Kalimba, with Tibetan knot motif.
3 redwood tone drums and stand.
The elegant sistrum, a tool for an Isean Lodge.
Crwth ("krooth"), a playable historical replica. Collection of Patrick Caudal.
Daxophone. Okay, I know you're going to ask . . . It was invented in the 80's by a German artist. Did you ever take a ruler and slide it out past the edge of your school desk and give it a twang? The daxophone uses a similar principle--you take the odd-shaped "ruler" and clamp it to the square block, which has a transducer pickup mounted inside. Take a violin bow and get the "ruler" vibrating while you roll the boat-shaped "dax" back and forth to get different intervals. Different shaped "rulers" give different wave-forms. The effect, surprisingly, is like a synthesizer. Operas have been written for this thing, believe it or not.
a hurdy-gurdy.
The works for hurdy above (traditional tangents).
Another Hurdy Gurdy.
