Was just watching a video of a guy painting a car and he made a mistake on a part. He looks to camera and says "the difference between a painter and someone who owns a paint gun is being able to fix problems."

About 15 years ago My family were guests at a Korean dinner and there was featured another guest who entertained us with an amazing erhu performance. I thought I could make one myself and did albeit a more simpler version (constructing the six sided box with oak flooring was no problem, it was gluing the animal skin that had me nervous...snake skin is traditionally used but I removed the skin from a junked pair of bongos and that worked great!) I did buy a bona fide erhu bow and I do occasionally fiddle around with it but I'm definitively not an erhu player

i enjoyed that drop in episode of "fixing dumb mistakes". i love that show!!!

here for the mistake-fixing! 💛

Wonderful work! Thank you for making such an instrument so that I can hear wonderful music!🥰

Instruments from around the world amaze me. Some made from the oddest things too. Keep up the great work dude, the world needs more Tim's

Always enjoy seeing your style and imagination translated into a new instrument.

This is a really cool instrument, and I love how you've made each one a little bit different. Fun to see traditional instruments made in a non-traditional fashion. Thanks for sharing!

Now that looks like a fun project! I might have to make one for me.

Hey Tim, love your take on traditional instruments. Keep up the iconoclast meter, it's refreshing!

It's just lovely that you are winding your own pickups, so now you can make whatever is needed for any kond of instruments you make.

Very interesting build & that is an instrument that I have never heard of Tim. Well done! 👍👍

Is that one of your songs? I like it!

Great video. Nice work! Gorgeous. Mahalo for sharing!

I don’t remember if I commented on your older videos in any detail, but the design of my own instruments is heavily inspired by the erhu. Unlike others who have attempted to convert a guitar-like instrument into something that can be bowed like a cello, I enjoyed the brainstorming process of placing a fretboard under the strings of an erhu, which conveniently has plenty of room for it. I’m still working on the idea to make it easily removed or swapped out with other fingerboards, either fretless or with custom non-Western scales. Anyhow, I love seeing your process. Nice work!

181st view/29th LIKE - another funky Erhu instrument - cool.

Nice job Tim.

I have two cigar boxes that is almost that shape mmm idea 😄

Cool build, but cool music too.

Tim!! I really enjoy your videos. The music in this one is so awesome!! Thanks for sharing. I make music too and its nice to truly be inspired by your work. I saw that you have a link to download the song. Thanks for that as well. I'm going to hit you up.

Cool

What a lovely instrument Sir. How do you deal with picking a scale length, then appropriate fret spacings for something like this? Please ignore me if this is a dumb question. I know there are calculators available for common guitar scales, but did you pick a scale length out of the air, or is there a recognised scale length for some exotic instrument like this?

Very cool 😎 Like deployed 👍

0:46 Mahogany?

Tim I ask this with peace and love but did you tune before recording the music for this video? 😭

How did you learn how to make these instruments?

Wonderful footage........background horrible. I don't get the choice, sorry.