Rickert and Ringholz Musical Instruments

New YouTube Clips from Recent Festivals

New YouTube videos at http://www.youtube.com/DoctorFiddle

We only set up shop at two fiddlers' conventions this year, The Hoppin' John Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention in Silk Hope, NC and the Tennessee Valley Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention at Athens State University in Athens, AL. Attendance was up at Hoppin' Johns, but it's only the second year of this great festival and there were only several hundred attendees last year.

Attendance (and people wanting to buy anything except food) seemed much lower than prior years. We suspect that at lot of people did not attend due to fear of not being able to get gas for the return trip...turns out that Alabama did not have the gas shortage suffered by Georgia and parts of North Carolina (where we were coming from).

Did not get ANY video from Hoppin John as we were crazy busy selling and setting up instruments for customers. Sales not so good at Tennessee Valley, but we got some GREAT video, with permission to put onto YouTube, of course. See the new videos at http://www.youtube.com/DoctorFiddle. There are more coming within the next few days

Enjoy!

Comparison of Our Various Pochettes with a Really Good Fiddle

This is our Adventurer Travel Fiddle...it's made to be heard!. See how it stacks up against a really good fiddle based on a Maggini copy and our other pochettes.

Go to the special comparison "Playlist" we put together on YouTube to hear them all.

Atlanta Pipe Band Wins at Loch Norman

The Atlanta Pipe Band is particularly important to me, as I played fiddle as part of their most recent annual fund raising concert. You want to hear what a pipe band should sound like, see their recent win at the Loch Norman Highland Games.