Musiq Electroniq

What is the Idea Behind Musiq Electroniq(tm)

In the course of inventing and designing groundbreaking acoustic bowed string instruments (violins, fiddles and related instruments), Don Rickert of Rickert & Ringholz Musical Instruments has dreamed up all sorts of electronic music products that do not quite fit into the product portfolio of an acoustic musical instrument company.

Some of these product ideas are actually geared towards live performance of what might be called the Alternative Folk genre. Others are geared towards other genres, such as jazz, rock and hip-hop. The two threads that run through everything that Musiq Electroniq(tm) brings to the market is they will be electronic and musical in nature.

Browsing through the products we have on the drawing board will hopefully make Musiq Electroniq's reason for being clear.

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A lot of people inventing, making and doing cool things with new synthesizers

In our search for answers to the extremely vexing issues associated with designing a bridge for a violin synthesizer (you would think it would be easy, but it ain't), we spread the net wide and discovered a lot of others doing wacky, wonderful and all-around cool things for post-keyboard synthesizers (nothing at all wrong with keyboards).

We intend to add a page of links to these synthesizer god and goddesses really soon. In fact we really need to talk to some of them about selling their instruments through an online store associated with this site that we plan to add in the future...not sure how near...depends on the standoff between us (and all other small businesses) and our customers (of our state-of-the-art acoustic instruments via www.fiddleandbowstore.com) and our consulting clients (mostly design research) on the the major issue of buying stuff and services. That fear and abandonment of logic thing that people get during hard economic times is a hard nut to crack! (but I digress, as I am given to doing).

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