“If you build it, they will come.”
Formal Project Goals
Formal Project Goals The primary goal of Kuwerdas America is to sustain, strengthen and develop the rondalla musical tradition in California and throughout the United States: namely, conduct a project with field-wide significance, addressing...
Rondalla Instrument Building Table of Contents
Welcome to our new project: Kwerdas Amerika! For the year 2012, we’ll be building instruments, and posting as much info as we possible can about it. WE WELCOME ALL YOUR COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS! Contents 0.0 Straight From Our Workbench:...
What Inspired Us to Begin our Project: Kwerdas Amerika
What Inspired Us to Begin Our Project: Kwerdas Amerika Nearly every rondallista who has an instrument made in the last 10-15 years has gone through it: After going through the trouble of finally acquiring a rondalla instrument, one plays it and...
About the Project, and Timeline
About the Project, Kwerdas Amerika
Our project, Kwerdas Amerika (strings in Amerika) has been made possible by a grant from the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, in partnership with the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The James Irvine Foundation, and the Surdna Foundation.
Read MoreHow to Follow Our Progress
How to Follow our Progress
We’ll be posting our progress in multiple sections.
- First we have our Kwerdas Amerika Building Blog, where we post our progress in chronological order.
- We also have organized, rearranged blog posts in which you can follow how each instrument is built, and can better follow each building step. We’ll update these sections as our building progresses
Questions We Want to Answer
Questions We Want to Answer (List will be updated as the project unfolds)
Phase I:
- What does a good rondalla instrument feel and sound like?
- What locally available materials can be used to achieve our desired results?
- Where can we get all our materials?