Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0905210203160.13236@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Hegelung
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 02:03:38 -0400 (EDT)
Hegelung http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung1.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung2.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung3.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung4.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung5.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung6.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung7.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung1.mp3 http://www.alansondheim.org/hegelung2.mp3 Thanks to Hans Brandeis, I was able (more or less) to repair the Philip- pine boat lute, which most likely is a T'boli hegelung. I added three frets and a fine-tuning mechanism, and Azure attached the tassel. I changed one of the two strings to a b/h and tuned the drone an octave lower. Finally we found a matching mirror for one missing, and I waxed the body. I placed the frets according to harmonics, keeping the lower four (including the 'zero' fret, which acts as the nut for the playing string) more or less in the position they came in. The replacement frets were made from beeswax and bamboo; Azure painted them, since black beeswax wasn't available. In any case here are some images of the (somewhat) restored instrument, as well as two pieces, the second based on a riff of the first.