Zither morning star
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Zither "Morning Star" is a range of plucked musical instruments.
This new concept has its origins in the traditional Austro-Bavarian zither.
An evolution took place in France in the 1970s, then in Italy.
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The approach taken to create my Zither instruments was to review all the parameters of these instruments elements in depth.
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​​After twenty years of complex research, surrounded by the best professionals in their respective fields, I have finalized an instrument that is accomplished with great exigence, from its conception to its manufacture.
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melodic Zither 4 Oc, and HARMONIC fundamental
about
I had my first experience with a violin, age of 5, with my mother's violin, where I made my very first acoustic squeaks.
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I understood very quickly that the instrument was relational. I also quickly stopped playing the instrument because I didn't play like Yehudi Menuhin.
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Afterwards, I missed this connection with instruments, so I built a guitar for myself in high school.
In the 2000s, in a flea market, I bought without knowing it, a zither, which turned out to be a bowed zither.
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I took it apart with haste and completely rebuilt it.
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I looked for strings, gave it back its voice and was enchanted by its harmony. This instrument really called to me.
My vocation as a luthier was born, and since then, my connection with instruments has been mainly centered on making them.
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While working in my firts profession as a prothetist and orthotist, I felt the longing to make zithers. Conceniently, I had a lot of experience with modern materials, epoxy glues, carbon. Certain of my knowledge, I tried to make the first prototypes and the result was... disastrous. The zither resisted me.
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I then approached the zither workshops of the Abbey of "En Calcat". The monks welcomed me with joy.
I discovered the passion of zither making with the brothers Patrice, Daniel, and Columba.
The essential quality of a good luthier is to always ask questions and not to remain locked in certainties.
