Cello Model
Tenor Model
Lezka 1 Model
Lezka 2 Model
Lezka 3 Model
Symphonia
Dziadowska Model
St. Francis Model
Lute body Model
Soft case
Cello Model
This is the one for experienced players, with a rare three-octave keyboard. A fretboard under the drones enables plucking, and the use of capodastros enables key changes much like on a guitar. The Cello Model’s inexhaustible playing possibilities are matched by its realitive ease of operation.
Chromatic keyboard - 36 keys
Melody strings - 2
Drones - 3
Trumpet strings - 2
Sympathetic strings - 12
Set of capodastros for the trumpets
Fretboards under the drones
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides – maple, ebony keybox top
Accessories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option: coloured, bigleaf maple, geared machine heads, metal tangents, soft case.
Above two sound samples from Macko Korba’s CD, played by Macko on the Cello model.
Dziurus
Kampinos Groove
Tenor Model
The body of this hurdy-gurdy is based on the Cello Model, but compared to it's big brother, this instrument has a shorter scale. With its 2 or 3 melody strings and metal tangents, Tenor Model is capable of producing a powerful, loud sound. The instrument can be additionally equipped with a set of sympathetic strings for an even louder sound and trompette capos for increased versality. This hurdy gurdy is suitable for performing in different styles.
Chromatic keyboard - 24 keys
Melody strings - 2-3
Drones - 3
Trumpet strings - 2
Metal tangents
Guitar machine heads
Capodastros for the trumpets - 4
Coloured
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides – bigleaf maple, ebony keybox top
Accessories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option:, sympathetic strings, soft case, pick up.
Lezka 1 Model
The idea behind this model is its wide range of use. Its simple shape and five strings (two melody chanters and three drones) can serve beginners ecellently. Yet with additions such as trumpet strings, sympathetic strings and extra finish this model turns into a thoroughly professional instrument. Lovely solo sound as well as acompaniment for voices.
Chromatic keyboard - 24 keys
Melody strings - 2
Drones - 2
Trumpet strings - 1
Ebony or palisander tuning keys
Natural wood colour
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides - maple
Accesories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option: guitar machine heads, soft case.
Lezka 2 Model
The idea behind this model is its wide range of use. Its simple shape and five strings (two melody chanters and three drones) can serve beginners ecellently. Yet with additions such as trumpet strings, sympathetic strings and extra finish this model turns into a thoroughly professional instrument. Lovely solo sound as well as acompaniment for voices.
Chromatic keyboard - 24 keys
Melody strings - 2
Drones - 3
Trumpet strings - 1
Guitar machine heads
Coloured
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides - maple
Accessories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option: metal tangents, sympathetic strings, pick up, soft case.
Lezka 3 Model
The idea behind this model is its wide range of use. Its simple shape and five strings (two melody chanters and three drones) can serve beginners ecellently. Yet with additions such as trumpet strings, sympathetic strings and extra finish this model turns into a thoroughly professional instrument. Lovely solo sound as well as acompaniment for voices.
Chromatic keyboard - 24 keys
Melody strings - 2
Drones - 3
Trumpet strings - 1-2
Guitar machine heads
Coloured
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides - bigleaf maple
Accessories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option: third melody string, second trompet string, metal tangents, sympathetic strings, pick up, soft case.
Symphonia
Inspired by the medieval instrument of the same name, of a simple shape, adorned by rosettes or other types of wood-carvings. It can be fitted out with a diatonic or chromatic keyborad. This hurdy is especially suited to accomany song.
Chromatic keyboard - 24 keys
OR diatonic keyboard - 12 keys
Melody strings - 1 - 2
Drones - 2 - 3
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides - maple
Accessories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option: coloured, geared machine heads, metal tangents, soft case.
Dziadowska Model
The Slavic, late 19th-century beggar’s lyre from Wolyn, now in Cracow’s Ethnographic Museum, inspired this model. Simple-shaped and of a delicate, humble sound and design, this model is good for accomaniment.
Chromatic keyboard - 21-24 keys
Diatonic keyboard - 12
Melody strings - 1 - 2
Drones - 2 - 3
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides – maple, ebony tunning keys,
Accesories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option: coloured, pick up, soft case.
St. Francis Model - currently not available
A highly original yet elegant instrument. The sound is similar to the Dziadowski ‘Beggar’s Lyre’ Model, yet its design was inspired by Picasso’s figurative art. Keeping the simplicity of the model intact, many veneer types were used to recall the patches on the cloak of St Francis, one of the greatest beggars that ever lived.
Melody strings - 2
Drones - 2
Ebony or palisander tunning keys
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides – maple inlay
Accesories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option: soft case.
Lute body Model – currently not available
Based on the 19th-century French instruments.
Melody strings - 2 - 3
Drones - 3 - 4
Trumpet strings - 1 - 2
Sympathetic strings - 6 - 10
Body wood: top - spruce, back and sides - American walnut
Accesories: rosin, cotton, belt
Option: coloured, bigleaf maple, geared machine heads, metal tangents, pick up, soft case.
