PKN Donostia vol.8

Pecha Kucha Night in Donostia. It was fun.

Takes a bit of work to prepare but it makes you think and I did learn some things. I knew its pretty difficult to be clear and precise in a few seconds, but I tend to forget it from time to time (as with so many things).
Pecha Kucha is some kind of something (not yet very clear what) but you have twenty images and just twenty second per image to explain what you want, and as I said, it can be tricky...
And what did I talk about? Guess? Early Instrument making, what else could it be. Sorry,the audio is in Basque, one of the languages of this funny country (funny not to use the other word starting with an f...). Ah, and part of the beggining is missing.


Pecha Kucha gaua Donostian. Ondo egon zan.
20 irudi erabiltzen dituzu 20 segundu irauten duenak bakoitza zerbait azaltzeko. Eta zeren gainean berba egin zuen Anderrek? Baaai, hori da. Ala, ikusi bideua.
(PowerPoint ei buruzko Luistxon irakaspenak buruan eduki genittuen lan hau prestatzean). Azkenean ezin izan neban gidoia irakurri mikroak hankarik ez zekalako ta heldu ein bihar zan aho onduan, dana dala be ez zeuan argi gehixegi ezer ikusteko...)

Noche Pecha Kucha en Donosti. Muy curioso, oiga!
Aunque el nombre quizá pueda sonar euskérico o cercano al vascuence, es en realidad un invento japonés (con alguna lejana relación con el Kamishibai?¿). Tienes 20 imágenes que duran 20 segundos cada una. (Haced la prueba, escribid algo sobre una imagen q queraís explicar y luego leerlo en voz alta, cúantos segundos os da?). Ha sido un ejercicio muy interesante.
Y sobre qué habló Ander? Pues sí, sobre el surrealista mundo de la construcción de instrumentos antiguos.
Ah, eso sí, está en vascuence (y sin subtítulos).

Gold leaf on a french 7 string bass viol

This a is a small 7 string bass viol, french, based on a Bertrand model.
She suffered quite a nasty accident on the soundboard and a new one was made.
And as extra decoration we did use some gold leaf, a motif based on another by Colichon...

Bertrand en instrumentu batean oinarritutako zazpi sokadun gamba viola baju bat. Tapea aldatu behar izan diogu eta bide batez urre horriz egindako apaindura txiki bat jarri diogu...

Bajo de siete cuerdas de un modelo pequeño de Nicolas Bertarnd. Hemos echado tapa nueva y de paso un poco de decoración con pan de oro... (basado en un motivo de otra viola de Colichon).


The pictures above are from the same instrument, the differences are in lighting (varnish is more on the orange side...)

Instrumentu berbera dira goiko argazkikoak, diferentzia argiztapenean dago, flasha edo fluoreszentea...

Las fotos de arriba son del mismo instrumento en el mismo momento, la diferencia está en la iluminación...

6 string Bass Viol II

Six string english bass viol, based on the Iohn Rose at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

All gut stringing. Found it interesting to see how the gut basses are much more sensitive to the soundpost than the overspun ones...(or perhaps it is just the instrument...)


























Sei sokako biola baxu bat, Iohn Rose en instrumentu batean oinarrituta, Victoria and Albert Museum en dagoena.
Soka guztiak tripazkoak jarriak. Tripazko baxuak askoz sentikorragoak dira arimaren doitzeeri, edo agian instrumentu hau izango al da?




Bajo de seis cuerdas basado en un modelo de Iohn Rose en el Victoria and Albert Museum.

Encordado en tripa.
Curioso ver como los bajos de tripa pura son mucho más sensitivos a los cambios del alma, o quizá sea sin más este instrumento.

TV or not TV

o LA TELEVISIÓN ES NUTRITIVA? (2)

So we appeared again on the Basque regional television, on the second channel, the one which is spanish spoken (the first one is basque spoken).
Three minutes and a half in a program which makes live connections. In this case I did not find much sense to make a live footage of an instrument maker with a mobile unit, but as it is paid with public money it does not seem to matter too much. These should not be the times to make use of public money so freely but...

Pues sí, de nuevo aparecemos en la televisión autonómica Vasca (esta vez en el segundo canal, que es hispanoparlante, a diferencia del primero que es en euskera o vascuence). Nada, tres minutitos en una conecxión en directo y que bien queda el taller en la tele (lo que hace la cámara). Por cierto, el equipo, Maite y David, muy majos (a los de la unidad móvil no tuve el gusto de conocerlos).

Ba bai, maiatzak 2 an etb2 an agertu giñan, zuzeneko programa baten. Ondiokan ez dot ondo ulertzen zergaitik ein zezten zuzenian elkarrizketa bat...
Ondo, ze politta ikusten dan tallarra telebisiñuan, ze ona kamaria. Grabatzera etorri ziran bixekin egixa esanda oso ondo, jente jatorra Maite eta David.

6 string Bass Viol

Six string english bass viol, based on the Iohn Rose at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Again,a bent top on five pieces and no decoration except for the single purfling on the soundboard (the original has a double one)(and now that I remember tailpiece and fingerboard are also decorated)











Allways liked the scroll very much, since the first time I saw it at the museum, and when we had the opportunity to handle it and have a close look at it, I was further asserted on that opinion.
I found it very well proportioned in all aspects (for my personal taste).



Sei sokako biola baxu bat, Iohn Rose en instrumentu batean oinarrituta, Victoria and Albert Museum en dagoena. Bost piezatako tapa armonikoa eta ez du apaingarri berezirik, jatorrizko instrumentua bezain soila, agian kordal eta diapasoian apaingarriren bat sartuko dugu?
Boluta edo marraskiloa instrumentu hoetan beti iruditu zait zoragarria, mantentzen dituen proporzioengaitik batez ere.

Bajo de seis cuerdas basado en un modelo de Iohn Rose en el Victoria and Albert Museum.
Tapa doblada en cinco piezas. Apenas tiene decoración excepto el fileteado en motivo de nudos en el diapasón y cordal.
Realmente bonita y bien proporcionada la voluta original.

The Vazquez Collection of Historical String Instruments from 1500 to 1789

The Vazquez Collection exhibition

Basauri (Basque Country)

Torre Medieval Ariz

20 March- 26 April. 2009.

Very interesting exhibition indeed.

We have to thank José Vazquez for letting us measure and take pictures of the instruments.

Crack, crack, crack

Latelly I got repair work to do, and I have a viol and a doublebass with the same crack on the same place...
Now that´s the only thing they have on common. Next time some pictures of the viol.

Azkenaldi honetan konponketa lanak, kontrabaxu bat eta zango biola bat arrakala batekin toki berean.
Baina horrek dira antzekotasun bakarrak. Hurrengoan zango biolaren argazkiak

ültimamente trabajo de reparación. Un cotrabajo y una viola de gamba/de arco con una raja en el mismo punto. Hasta ahí las similitudes. La próxima vez imágenes de la viola.

Proper pictures of the Lirone

Along with a doublebass to repair I got these pictures of the Lirone, taken by Belén, someone who knows how to use a camera (unlike me). Thank you !

Lironearen ganorazko argazkiak, Belen ek ataratakuak. Eskerrikasko!

Algunas fotos del Lirone, sacadas/tomadas por una buena fotógrafa. Gracias Belén.

Kuadroetatik irtendako instrumentuak

Eta Josuk komentatzen zebanan gañian Eibartarrak posta zerrendan, ba pelikula batetik ataratakua dala emongo dau, baña bere lanbidean ikasten dan "geometria descriptiva" erabiltzen dou erreprodukzione hauek egiteko.

Piskat hobeto azaltzen da hemen...

Dana dala, prespektibaren legeak zuzen zuzen jarraitzea pintura batean dirudienez ez da horren beharrezkoa...edo instrumentu batzuk benetan distortsionatuak zeuden.

Kuadroan ikusten dan instrumentutik egin dogu hamairu sokadun Lirone bat.

Lirone

Now, the lirone is finished.

The owner took it away and is very happy with the instrument. Anyway it neeeds still some fine adjustment on the bridge.

The sound is uuum..., how to define it...., ample, wide, for such a 'small' instrument with so many strings. There are still some sound quality diferences between strings, but one will have to see how does it evolve.

Due to some health and personal matters it took as longer than expected finishing the instrument, so, the owner was willing to take it home.

With all that rushing we forgot to take pictures of the finished instrument, but you´ll have some when it comes back for the final adjustments.