26 Feb 06 - 08:33 AM (#1679225) Subject: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: sapper82 On BBC Radio 3's Early Misic Show and available on "Listen Again" for the next week; Lucy Skeaping talking to Nigel Eaton and Steve Turner about the Hurdy Gurdy with lots of musical exapmles. Click here, then Click "Radio Player" and look for Early Music Show on list. |
26 Feb 06 - 08:37 AM (#1679230) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST,Hurdy gurdy fan Also try www.danteferrara.co.uk if you like the hurdy gurdy and any other medieval instrument. |
26 Feb 06 - 12:50 PM (#1679441) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: open mike and nyckelharpas are basically bowed hurdy gurdys.. |
26 Feb 06 - 01:29 PM (#1679476) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: kendall Not many posts here, I wonder why... |
26 Feb 06 - 09:08 PM (#1679878) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Anglo Well, Kendall, I just taped the program, and I appreciate sapper82 for drawing my attention to it or I would have missed it. Think yourself lucky I'm not planning on bringing one of my hurdy-gurdies to the house concert next Saturday. |
27 Feb 06 - 01:04 AM (#1680002) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: open mike is this blowzabella a mudcatter? Nigel? interesting interview... Nigel's dad builds hurdy gurdies.. they speak of a symphony...or symphonia.... i saw one of these htis wsummer in Sweden. and Fooles Troupe has one, i believe!@ they differentiate between the "Barrel Organ" often associated with "organ grinder" who has a monkey with a cup who collects donations for them... this is a fascinating radio show. |
27 Feb 06 - 02:05 AM (#1680006) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: katlaughing Oh good, I can't wait to listen to it! Thanks, sapper, for letting us know. I think I played one in a past life.:-) kat |
27 Feb 06 - 02:09 AM (#1680008) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Rasener Dante can been seen live at Market Rasen Folk Club on Friday March 10th 2006 Dante Ferrara |
27 Feb 06 - 02:12 AM (#1680009) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: The Fooles Troupe Well, Open Mike, I've got a cup... |
27 Feb 06 - 09:33 AM (#1680210) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Flash Company I'll follow this up when my builders have gone, Always wanted to make one of these boyos, might get round to itthis year. FC |
27 Feb 06 - 01:44 PM (#1680359) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST,leeneia I too am interested in making one. I'm going to use the instructions at Dennis Havlena's site http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/hurdy.htm I'm still looking for thin wood for the top. Last week I went to a concert by the early-music group Piffaro. Afterwards, I noted a group of pleased and interested people who wanted to see the hurdy gurdy. There's hope for mankind yet. |
27 Feb 06 - 06:08 PM (#1680634) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST Jim O'Rourke made a great record called 'Happy Days' (which came out on John Fahey's Revenant label) - it is basically an hour-long minimalist drone composition for hurdy gurdy and guitar. Recommended for fans of Tony Conrad, I'd say. Check it out! |
28 Feb 06 - 05:36 AM (#1680920) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: breezy Nuada, from Ely, feature Hurdy Gurdy and will be appearing at The Wandering Windward Folk song Club in St Albans on Sunday 12th march at the Comfort Hotel , when they'll be supporting Chris Flegg holywell Hill ad Doors open 7.30 non-smoke |
28 Feb 06 - 07:16 AM (#1680944) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Flash Company leeneia.... When I made a guitar, which was more years ago than I care to count, there were plenty of sources for suitable timbers, If I can find any still in operation I will let you know. The name Hobgoblin springs to mind for some reason. FC |
28 Feb 06 - 07:27 AM (#1680946) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: breezy its a chain of music shops. |
28 Feb 06 - 07:32 AM (#1680949) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST I Love the hurdy gurdy, I have loads of albums by Blowzabella and one by Nigel Eton. My mates hate them of course, but I play them anyone way. |
28 Feb 06 - 09:18 AM (#1681022) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: John P Over the Water Hurdy Gurdy Festival In the second picture down, that's me in the front row with the accordion. Where else would anyone not notice that I'm being so rude as to play the accordion? There's also loads of HG info at Alden and Cali Hackmann's Olympic Instrument site |
28 Feb 06 - 10:11 AM (#1681052) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: GUEST,leeneia Thanks for the pix, John P. How nice it is to see all those people with the courage to play what they enjoy. Have you ever heard of the Texas Toot? It's a week-long early music gathering in Austin. One feature of the Toot is the "Krumhorn Konklave," a session in a beer garden where you can play any instrument as long as it buzzes. |
28 Feb 06 - 04:41 PM (#1681548) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: sapper82 Very glad people found my posating of use! Thankyou! I saw Dante Ferrara at Wheaton Aston last year and really enjoyed his performance! |
28 Feb 06 - 04:51 PM (#1681557) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Rasener He is good in't he and funny with some of his songs. |
28 Feb 06 - 11:35 PM (#1681895) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: JohnB Great programme, listening to it right now, the play again link took a bit of finding, but it is there or should I say here. JohnB |
04 Mar 06 - 12:00 PM (#1685071) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Bert refresh |
04 Mar 06 - 01:09 PM (#1685114) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: open mike ok-"put hurdy in the filter box"? sounds like the title of a bizarre song perhaps the filter box is like a dust bin?? thanks for refreshing this thread.. any way i hope that BBC sound clip is still there.. if it is there for a week... here is a message i just got from my Scandinavian list.. there was a performance at the nordic music fest. by The Hurdy Gurdy Group...the main sponsor of that fest. is Northside records...www.noside.com * NPR's All Things Considered ran a rave review of the great CD by HURDY-GURDY, "Prototyp" (NSD 6084) on March 2. Here's a link to the story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5242278. |
04 Mar 06 - 05:50 PM (#1685255) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Tootler An interesting programme. I saw Misericordia some years ago at an English Heritage event. They are very good and the spent quite some time talking to both myself and my kids about their instruments and the music. It was interesting that it is Stephen rather than Anne Marie who plays the harp as the harp seems to have become an almost exclusively female preserve. |
04 Mar 06 - 07:05 PM (#1685291) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Stilly River Sage National Public Radio (in the U.S.) had something this past week about a band interested in the hurdy gurdy sound and using an electronic version of the instrument, though they also had the analog (!) version available as well. I don't remember which program, but it was a fairly detailed discussion with examples. I'll post a link if I remember which program it was on. SRS |
04 Mar 06 - 09:07 PM (#1685320) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: black walnut I'm in the studio right now, recording another family CD...this week we had Ben Grossman come in to add some hurdy~gurdy. A fabulous underused instrument. ~b.w. |
05 Mar 06 - 04:41 AM (#1685427) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: Lancashire Lad Fans of Hurdy Gurdy may like to have a listen to Bof!. Their page with music samples is here Cheers LL |
05 Mar 06 - 01:48 PM (#1685740) Subject: RE: For Hurdy Gurdy Fans From: open mike yes check march 4 1:09 for NPR link |