Neil Gow Pochette (aka Dancing Master's Kit, Travel fiddle) Manufacturer: Don Rickert Design SKU: DRDGow MPN: DRDGow Price: $1,200.00 $1,020.00 Retail: $1,200.00 You Save: $180.00 This item is in stock Sale Ends: 4/1/10 Quantity:

Pochette based on the one in the Burrell Museum in Glasgow, Scotland...

If you know anything about Thomas Jefferson, he would buy this instrument in the blink of the eye...oh, wait--he did!

WANT TO PLAY A FIDDLE LIKE THE ONE THAT NEIL GOW (one of the founding fathers of Scottish fiddling) played. THOMAS JEFFERSON often played a fiddle of this type as well (yup, the President was a fiddler as well).

You need look no further. We now make in our Atlanta, GA lutherie a pochette based on the one in the Burrell Museum in Glasgow, Scotland...; which has become one of our most popular instruments. Period (18th Century) wooden and genuine leather cases (like the one Thomas Jefferson used) are available for this instrument, which, in addition to being charming and beautiful, sounds wonderful.

To see a bunch of videos of the Neil Gow Pochette, as well as many other pochettes and backpacker fiddles designed and made by Don Rickert Design click on the YouTube window below.

The first video is quite notable, as the player is playing a period Irish tune (c. 1780) in the Baroque Irish style with a Baroque hold (tucked in the armpit and resting on the arm) with the ultra-modern (for the 1700s) Tourte bow, the same type of bow we use today. You get A LOT more expression out of a historically-correct Tourte bow than a Baroque bow...so why let your expressiveness suffer with a Baroque or transitional Baroque bow?!!! They are fine on other instruments but really suck for pochette playing (we had an expert period musician try both types of bow and the high-quality snakewood Baroque, normally used for Renaissance Fiddle playing, was horrible.)

Picassa Slideshow: (click on the photo below)

Neil Gow Pochette Photos

Our Neil Gow Pochette is designed to be played baroque style (tucked in the arm pit, resting on the forearm); however, the instrument can be played under the chin in a "transitional style". Either a baroque bow or a modern bow is historically appropriate, as both types were being used in the late 1700s.

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