Greetings,
Before long (at a guess, some months’ time) I’ll be selling a very slightly used hurdy gurdy.
I’ve used it enough to know that this is one instrument I truly need to delve much more deeply into, so I’m upgrading.
This one is Helmut’s “Phoenix Royal” (transparent blue finish over flame maple) but with customizations:
- Celtic knotwork inlay on the keybox, wheel cover, and tailpiece;
- Extra trompette;
- total: G drone, C drone, low G chanter, high G chanter, G trompette, C trompette;
- both C drone and C trompette have capos to make them D;
- can drone R-5-Octave in the keys of G and C (major or minor); can drone R-Octave in D (or Dm).
- fully chromatic keyboard;
- built-in pickup with 3-band EQ and tuner;
metal tangents; - fretless fingerboard for the G (mouche with a chien) string;
- custom fit hard case;
- in excellent playing condition and appearance condition.
For a photo:
- go to www.tommyswirled.com
- click on “music” in the left-hand frame;
- click on “instruments”;
- scroll to almost the bottom.
I paid 3,185 Euro ($4,178.00);
His standard Phoenix Royal has just had a 7% increase; don’t know about the custom upgrades;
I waited 5 months; I hit his building cycle just right.
Email me if interested and I could be convinced to let it go early:
tommy@tommyswirled.com