ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 12:40 PM

With you on that Leenia

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 12:32 PM

"That thing wouldn't keep howling like that if you'd stop twisting it's tail!"

Don Firth

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 12:31 PM

I have a friend who is an excellent HG player.

When he is playing it is bearable for the first 30 or 40 seconds.

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: Alec
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 12:15 PM

Or maybe something from Barbarella.;-)

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: bubblyrat
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 12:13 PM

Thankyou Alec. I must say,'Organistrum'makes it sound much more like a musical instrument than a Tudor dessert.

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 12:05 PM

Hello,

Step one. Record friend playing said Hurdy Gurdy.

Step two. Take said friend to hear some expert exponent expounding.

Step three. While the memory is still clear in friend's mind ~ play them the recording made in Step one.

Step four. Friend will either howl with frustration and get rid of the H-G in despair OR desire to get better...

Or maybe not!!

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: ThreeSheds
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 12:04 PM

Put it on top of a pyre of borons

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: Alec
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:55 AM

Vielle a roue in French, sometimes Wheel Fiddle in English & originally the Organistrum.It has a long history so let it live.

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: Midchuck
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:48 AM

Recalls to mind a friend who used to work on his own computers, and also liked precision rifle shooting. It was his custom, if a hard drive died and had to be replaced, to put the old drive up at the range to shoot at. If satisfied two purposes - worked out his frustration, and made sure that no one would find the old drive in the garbage and somehow retrieve confidential data from it.

Peter.

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: bubblyrat
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:47 AM

More to the point,why is it called a Hurdy-Gurdy ?? And what is it called elsewhere, ie France,Spain,Germany ?? A less colourful, but more correct appellation that I have heard, is "Buzzy Thing ". I do actually rather like it, in short bursts, but it does seem rather limited in its scope----I mean ,Donovan sang about one,but I don't think that you could play that tune on one.

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: artbrooks
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:46 AM

Cut to the chase...let's have no thread drift here.

Just to get the ball rolling, I would suggest a light application of hatchet, and then put it to a higher purpose as kindling.

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:36 AM

A planet that permits Rod Stewart to live should have no trouble with a challenged hurdy-gurdy player.

Mick, have you ever heard how a hurdy-gurdy is supposed to sound? If so, is your friend playing it right? In other words, is it you or him that has the problem? This would be step 1 in figuring this out.

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: Scoville
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 11:04 AM

Are there instructional videos for hurdy-gurdy?

Seriously, I love hurdy-gurdy when it's played well. I don't advocate wholesale elimination of hurdy-gurdies (banjos, autoharps, bowed psalteries . . . well, maybe bowed psalteries), but he ought to be listen-to-able after three years.

Subject: RE: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 10:34 AM

Hurdy Gurdy when played correctly..lovely instrument...what are you going to do to your friend?

Subject: ideas on good deaths for hurdy gurdies
From: GUEST,mick p royal marine shanty crew
Date: 09 Feb 07 - 10:16 AM

one of our members (he sings The Barly Malt) was given a hurdy gurdy for his birthday from his wife. He has been practising on it ever since, three years now. I heard him play? it recently. After leaving the trauma dept of our local hospital after days of intensive treatment and therepy I just want revenge on that instrument of torture and its player.