You can go to the main Don Rickert Research & Design site to get all of the details, which can be summed up as follows: We are a design research and product design firm that also sells some of its own products online. We have been operating the online store, www.FiddleandBowStore.com for almost two years. This store sells our original specialty violins and fiddles, as well as accessories such as bows from other makers. Our own design portfolio includes one of the largest collections of travel violins (a.k.a. pochettes, kits, backpacker fiddles) in the world.
Some of these travel violins are historic reproductions and some are completely modern, achieving sound quality approaching that of a decent fiddle, despite their 3 inch width. We also sell our own purpose built octave (baritone) violins, which are made to be tuned an octave lower than a regular violin but fit into a standard violin case and produce astonishingly powerful sound and projection volume. Our instruments are played by some of the world's best musicians.
Website Proliferation
In addition to new acoustic violin designs, we are involved in other innovation areas, notably electric and electronic (synthesizers) as well as high-performance rowing craft. Over the past two years, we have established a number of specialty sites, focusing on octave violins, electronic musical instruments, rowing craft, our online portfolio, and so forth. We are in the process of consolidating the content of these websites and blogs into a single site, which will be called www.AdventureandInnovationBlog.com (it is not active yet). We will freeze the current crop of sites and keep them alive for some time to come, as there are many links to them. To each will be added a message referring readers to the new www.AdventureandInnovationBlog.com, once it is up and running in the next week or so.
New Online Stores
We will also be establishing two new online stores. You can read about that in the next post.
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