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Originally posted by sonhouse"Ray Scudero 1946-2005 RIP"
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThank you. He was best friend to me and my wife also. He was a genius. He was a luthier also, he made a guitar for me, a guitar for my son Kevin and a really unique dulcimer for my wife Susan. We treasure those instruments.
[b]"Ray Scudero 1946-2005 RIP"
"Ray Scudero, songwriter, singer and luthier, died on December 3, 2005, after a long illness.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Ray lived for some twenty years in Israel, where he came to feel most at home. His multi-faceted talents turned him into a pillar of the local folk music community.
Ray's songs have touc ...[text shortened]... life at such an early age.
Thank you, my friend, with condolences on your personal loss. ~Bob[/b]
Originally posted by sonhouseOriginally posted by sonhouse
Thank you. He was best friend to me and my wife also. He was a genius. He was a luthier also, he made a guitar for me, a guitar for my son Kevin and a really unique dulcimer for my wife Susan. We treasure those instruments.
The dulcimer was very interesting from a design perspective.
If you ever heard of the Hardanger fiddle, from Norway, it has the ...[text shortened]... ns. He also give a bit of a tutorial at the end of the piece.
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Originally posted by gregsflatThank you everyone. He was unique. How many people EVER wrote 600 songs? Or built musical instruments as unique as his? We did a summer with my family going back home to the US on vacation and we discovered we could cut piezo material with scissors and come up with shapes rectangular and skinny and still be used as an acoustic pickup for instruments. Regular piezo's are usually round, size of a quarter of size of a dime, used mainly in Sonalert buzzers for alarm sounds.
Sorry for your loss
Originally posted by sonhouseThat is really genius!
If you ever heard of the Hardanger fiddle, from Norway, it has the regular 4 strings of a normal violin but inside there are 4 more tuned to certain notes and only respond by the resonance of the main strings being bowed. They are never touched directly.
That is what Ray made for Susan, a dulcimer, the Appalachian lap dulcimer to be exact but with 4 internal resonating strings. As far as I know, it is the only one on the Planet.