hurdy gurdy man

[Paul Pless]

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[AndyG]

Oo!

...Oh! Not the long-awaited Steve Hillage thread, then?

Ah well: I hope you all have some symphonie for me.

Andy

[skuthorp]

I live near Hurdy Gurdy Creek….. (don't know how it got it's name)

[Jimmy W]

hurdy gurdy woman

Patty Gurdy - "Leaves And Lemons"

[John Meachen]

I lost what little enthusiasm I might have ever had for the things after enduring an inexpertly operated example in the pub on a folk night.

[Peerie Maa]

I lost what little enthusiasm I might have ever had for the things after enduring an inexpertly operated example in the pub on a folk night.

You could say the same for any bowed string instrument.

[JayInOz]

A medieval tune well played- https://youtu.be/tYrolrI30_c JayInOz

[Peerie Maa]

A medieval tune well played- https://youtu.be/tYrolrI30_c JayInOz

Thanks for that. It opened up a treasure trove of other tunes.

[bamamick]

I see Patty Gurdy on IG all the time. That’s a heck of a machine.

Mickey Lake

[MushCreek]

Well hell, now I want one. Since I'm sure I can't afford one, I'll have to look into building one. Hold my beer, I'll be back in a couple years...

[Peerie Maa]

Well hell, now I want one. Since I'm sure I can't afford one, I'll have to look into building one. Hold my beer, I'll be back in a couple years...

Here you go : https://sites.google.com/site/gurdym...ce-hurdy-gurdy

and: https://www.cigarboxnation.com/forum...-a-hurdy-gurdy

[WszystekPoTrochu]

An obligatory mention of Mozart's (L, not WA) villager's wedding which, coincidentally, I've listened to literally yesterday

The instrument was slowly falling out fashion by then

[Chris Woodward]

[Clarkey]

These chaps are extraordinary live:

[john welsford]

Well hell, now I want one. Since I'm sure I can't afford one, I'll have to look into building one. Hold my beer, I'll be back in a couple years...

A friend of mine who built Appalachian dulcimers as a hobby, decided to build a Hurdy Gurdy. He did manage to complete it, did a very nice job, but that was the last instrument he ever built. It almost beat him, he just couldnt bring himself to go back to his workbench after that.

John Welsford

[Andrew2]

My brother worked for a firm that kept a box at the Albert Hall in London. He said there was a folk evening and he had the box. Well, since he was not exactly at the top of the tree, my expectations of 60'S folk were somewhat dashed.. Among other folk music, there was a Hungarian Hurdy Gurdy group. Star turn, was the youngest H-G player. He was about 5 or 6 and churned the handle to not a great applause.
It might have bilghted my apreciation of any local 'folk music' since then..

[John Meachen]

Not far removed from my experience.I have suffered too many folk evenings when poor quality performers expected a reverential hush while they inflicted their mediocre efforts on a captive audience.I don't know of a diplomatic way to point out that there may be good reasons why they aren't filling stadiums and earning a packet from their music.Which would give me the option of not turning up and not paying to suffer.I do get enormous pleasure from good music performed well and that perhaps spoils me when I am confronted by well meaning amateurs.