Its sound has both elegance and clarity. Woods available are all sycamore or all mahogany. This instrument is of my design, and of simple appearance, enabling me to offer my usual quality at a price attractive to a beginner. With 2 melody strings, trompette and a bass drone, it has a standard size keyboard of 2 octaves, so that those wishing to later progress to a more sophisticated instrument will not have to make any adjustments to playing technique. The Student has a good sound, similar to a guitar body.
Woods are usually mahogany or African walnut.
They seemed to have a diatonic keyboard, but to avoid limiting the range for the player, I make them with a 2 octave chromatic keyboard. There is usually 1 melody and 1 trompette string, and 1 bass drone. The sound is as expected, quite quiet, and ideal to accompany solo voice. Woods are sycamore, walnut and mahogany. This is the same size and shape as the standard 3 string Symphony, but is capable of a greater variety of sounds and can be regarded as a conventional Hurdy Gurdy in box form.