Don Rickert Musical Instruments

Don Rickert Musical Instruments, Makers of Violoncellos da Spalla and Other Fine Bowed Instruments

For more information about us, including our online store, the Don Rickert Musician Shop, see Introducing the Don Rickert Musician Shop.

Don Rickert Musical Instruments is a premiere designer and maker of innovative custom and historic musical instruments. Since starting our musical instruments enterprise in 2007, we have dealt primarily in those of the bowed variety (e.g. violins, fiddles and related instruments such as octave fiddles). We have also designed and made a number of fretted instruments along the way: mandolins, parlor guitars, acoustic bass guitars, tenor guitars and the like. We will soon be branching out in a serious way into the world of fretted musical instruments. Look forward to some really interesting mandolins, octave mandolins, mandocellos, parlor guitars, acoustic bass guitars, tenor guitars and the like. 

Regular production items are usually available at the Don Rickert Musician Shop. If you want something that is not there, give us a call...

Our email is [email protected] and main phone number is (706) 896-0909. Don Rickert's mobile phone number is (706) 400-1481

Mailing address:
Don Rickert Musical Instruments
726 Hall Creek Road
Hiawassee, GA 30546

 

See:

Our new online store, the Don Rickert Musician Shop (www.DonRickertMusicianShop.com)

Our companion blog, Don Rickert Musician Shop: Latest News (www.DonRickertMusicianShop.com/blog)

The Facebook page of our owner, Donald Rickert (We still have a large number of photo albums there) (www.facebook.com/donald.rickert1)

Our new company Facebook page, also called D. Rickert Musical Instruments (www.facebook.com/DonRickertMusicianShop)

Our YouTube Channel: www.YouTube.com/DoctorFiddle

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We are NOT a "Brick-and-Mortar" Retail Establishment Nor a Typical Online Operation (We are Better!)

We are not a “brick-and-mortar” retail establishment; however, many customers do choose to visit our studio and workshop in the beautiful North Georgia Mountains (part of the Appalachians). Being shopkeepers for a corner musical instrument shop would be completely at odds with our multifaceted focus on continuous research & development, innovative instrument design and customization, combined with our creation of meticulously accurate replicas of historically significant fiddles. 

The nature of our business demands that sales be conducted primarily online. We have done this for some time. The predecessor to the new Don Rickert Musician Shop was called the “Adventurous Muse Store.” We initially operated under the name “Fiddle and Bow Shop.” 

Don Rickert Musical Instruments maintains an online retail store, the Don Rickert Musician Shop (www.DonRickertMusicianShop.com) and has several companion blogs, the most important being, Don Rickert Musician Shop: Latest News (www.DonRickertMusicianShop.com/blog)

Please note that this site has been around for a good while. While working diligently to clear out the "junk" (old obsolete articles), this is going to take some time. We thank you for your patience during this period and offer a blanket apology for any incorrect links to our old online store.

 

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New Podcast Episode of Cool Instruments for Cool Cats on Violoncello da Spalla is now Live on YouTube and Spotify.

Don Rickert on Linktree: https://linktr.ee/donrickert. This link gets you to my detailed contact information, my websites and social media.

About:

Cool Instruments for Hep Cats podcast, Episode 3, with luthier Daniela Gaidano on the Violoncello da Spalla is available NOW on YouTube and Spotify.

Host is Dr. Donald Rickert. Daniela Gaidano is a violinist, violist and luthier specializing in making violoncellos da spalla. She worked for the famous string maker, Aquila, where she was part-owner for 15 years. She is based in Northern Italy near Austria. Host, Don Rickert, is a musician and luthier as well, who makes various stringed instruments, including violoncellos da spalla.

Links:

• YouTube (video version, in 5 parts): https://www.youtube.com/@Cool_Instruments_for_Hep_Cats/podcasts
• Spotify (audio version): https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cool-instruments-hep-cats

Just information – NO marketing!:

I am not against marketing. After all, if you make things, you have to find ways of telling potential buyers about what you do. There is a time and place for sales pitches, self-promotion and such. I mean, this post is marketing for the podcast when you think about it.

The ‘Cool Instruments for Hep Cats” podcast is just NOT the time or the place for self-promotion and marketing. It is more than one hour of just really interesting information and informed opinion. The podcast is also a politics free zone. But it is a positive energy zone!

Check out also…

Episodes 1 and 2 (audio versions), with Dr. Roger Landes, are available on Spotify. Episode 2 (video version) is available on YouTube. Note: Episode 1 was audio only.

The episodes with Dr. Landes are about Irish (and Greek) bouzouki, octave mandolin, citterns and related tenor and baritone range, double-course, plucked instruments. The links shown above get you where you need to be for the Roger Landes episodes.

Sponsorship:

The ‘Cool Instruments for Hep Cats’ podcast is brought to you by D. Rickert Musical Instruments. I (Don Rickert) am the owner, designer and luthier.

Contact:

Don Rickert on Linktree: https://linktr.ee/donrickert. This link gets you to my detailed contact information, my websites and social media.

Image Assets for Cool Instruments for Hep Cats Ep 3

These are some of the image assets presented by Guest Daniela Gaidano in Cool Instruments for Hep Cats Episode 3. Host: Don Rickert of D. Rickert Musical Instruments.

 

Episode 2 of the Podcast, Cool Instruments for Hep Cats is Available NOW on Spotify and YouTube!

Episode 2 of 'Cool Instruments for Hep Cats' is available now as a regular audio podcast on Spotify and as a video podcast on YouTube.

On Spotify

On YouTube

In this episode I talk to Dr. Roger Landes about bouzoukis (Greek as well as Irish), octave mandolins and citterns. Episode 2, a continuation of Episode 1, features discussion and demonstrations of several of Roger's very cool instruments.

For  more information about 'Cool Instruments for Hep Cats', see my earlier article, 'Our New Podcast and YouTube Channel: Cool Instruments for Hep Cats'.

Upcoming episodes in the near future deal with such fascinating topics as 5-string and other alternative cellos, violoncello da spalla, octave fiddles and travel violins, with episodes focused on a plethora of other out-of-the-ordinary musical instruments to follow.

Cool Instruments for Hep Cats is brought to you by D. Rickert Musical Instruments and Don Rickert Musician Shop.