Nicolas Hambas is a member of the Bowed Dulcimer Friends Yahoo group and has graciously agreed to let us share music and pictures of his Bouzouki Da Gamba

Here is Nic's version of a bowed lap instrument. For lack of any other name, Nic named it Bouzouki Da Gamba. It has four nylon strings and is tuned ADad (from low to high).

The box is made of walnut with a mahogany neck, red cedar top and radiused purpleheart fretboard. It also has celluloid binding and friction tuners

From Nic:  Here are some tunes I have arranged and recorded all by myself on my home computer thanks to the miracle of multitracking. You will hear hammered dulcimer, lap dulcimer, bowed dulcimer, bouzouki da gamba and bowed psaltery. All these instruments are also built by me.  These tunes are recorded in stereo MP3. They aren't meant as samples to sell my CD or anything, so they aren't truncated. They are full recordings for your enjoyment. If you have a slow connection, I apologize.  To the best of my knowledge, these tunes are in the public domain. My arrangements, however, aren't, so if you steal any of them and as a result you become rich, I want a Buick.

AURA LEE - - The classic American tune. Bowed dulcimer (Arrangement by Nicolas Hambas)

DOWN BY THE SALLY GARDENS - - Irish traditional. Bowed dulcimer and Bouzouki da Gamba. (Arrangement in the public domain.)

THE WATER IS WIDE - - American traditional. Bowed dulcimer.

STAR OF THE COUNTY DOWN - - Bowed, lap and hammered dulcimers.