The Latest from Hall's Instrument Building Studio

Your Questions & Hall's Answers

Q "I’m a total beginner when it comes to making gemshorns and just started making one. Everything was fine when I was making the wind way and the window of the instrument, as I was able to get a decent tone. However, when I started making the sound holes, things started to go wrong. 

I started tuning the sound holes one by one from lowest to highest and things started off fine with the first couple holes. But as I got to the higher holes, the sound got thinner and weaker till eventually, there was no sound at all. 

So I currently have an instrument with basically three functioning sound holes. I want to ask for some advice of what I did wrong." 

- TSD (USA)

A  Hall's advice for TSD will be posted soon.

Also, What's Hall Building, Now?

The latest news from Hall's Studio is that he's started building a replica of the Sutton Hoo Lyre. 

Photos of the work in progress forthcoming!