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10 Mar 04 - 08:17 PM (#1133455) Subject: Tech: I'm looking for a unique instrument. From: GUEST,Mary V. The Oscar Awards nite...a man was standing an playing something that looked sort of like a skinny guitar... but it had a crank on the right hand side and he was turning the crank the whole while. Can anyone fill me in on what that is? Thanks from Mary V. |
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10 Mar 04 - 08:20 PM (#1133458) Subject: RE: Tech: I'm looking for a unique instrument. From: Ed. Sounds like a Hurdy Gurdy. |
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10 Mar 04 - 09:12 PM (#1133486) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: Allan C. Click here for a previous discussion. |
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10 Mar 04 - 09:42 PM (#1133502) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: GUEST,.gargoyle It WAS a Hurdy Gurdy...and
what a wonderful sight to see.
Sincerely, |
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11 Mar 04 - 12:17 AM (#1133575) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: GUEST,leeneia Not as unique as the violin with a trumpet bell on it that a gypsy was playing on the subway in Paris last September. I got a picture. |
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11 Mar 04 - 12:19 AM (#1133577) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: LadyJean If I'd known there was going to be a hurdy gurdy, I would have watched the Oscars. |
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11 Mar 04 - 12:20 AM (#1133578) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: Lil Dog Turpy Do you know how to tune a Hurdy Gurdy? no one else does either! |
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11 Mar 04 - 03:24 AM (#1133638) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: Roger the Skiffler leeina, that's a phonofiddle, Temperance Seven used to feature one, popular in pre-microphone days. RtS |
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11 Mar 04 - 03:44 AM (#1133642) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: Roger the Skiffler Leeneia, Details HERE RtS (sorry, I mis-typed your name in last post!) |
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11 Mar 04 - 09:26 AM (#1133823) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: Roger the Skiffler Oh, Hell, the link doesn't work! Try google image search on "phonofiddle" for pics & infor. RtS (memo to self: always test links before posting!) |
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11 Mar 04 - 09:33 AM (#1133828) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: John P While it was nice to see a hurdy-gurdy in the Oscars, it would have been even nicer if he had actually played the thing so a national audience could get to hear one. Or better yet, if they had hired a real player to play it instead of having the instrumental sounds supplied by a violin and a cello. That song would have been beautiful with a hurdy-gurdy accompaniment. John Peekstok |
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11 Mar 04 - 09:35 AM (#1133832) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: GLoux Is a phonofiddle the same as a Stroh Violin? -Greg |
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11 Mar 04 - 09:39 AM (#1133835) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: Dave Bryant RtS - it works if you click "see image alone" - the instrument being played looks as though it might be a one-stringed phonofiddle which were not uncommon. I gather that one of the reason that the phonofidde was developed in the first place was because proper fiddles didn't record very well on the original Eddison wax cylinder system. |
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11 Mar 04 - 11:09 AM (#1133906) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: GUEST,leeneia This is all most interesting about the hurdy-gurdy and the phonofiddle. Who was it that recorded the song about the Hurdy-Gurdy Man some years ago? Think of all those non-folkies who heard that song, wondered what a hurdy-gurdy was, and now have seen on on Oscars. I'd like to have a hurdy-gurdy, but expense prohibits. I don't suppose I would use it that much. |
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11 Mar 04 - 11:28 AM (#1133922) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: GUEST,Les B. GLoux - I believe that the Stroh and phonofiddle are the same. A deceased friend had a genuine Stroh. Within the last three or four years his brother, also a fiddler, made a trip to Tailand (I think) and found by chance some fairly good replicas of the Stroh were being made there, and bought a couple. They came with either brass or silver-looking (some kind of alloy) horns. He offered me one for about $300 U.S. - I don't know what he gave. So, they are available in some parts of the world. |
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11 Mar 04 - 11:33 AM (#1133925) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: Strollin' Johnny Donovan Leitch recorded (and I think he wrote) 'Hurdy-Gurdy Man'. It was reputed to be about a seller of illegal substances (LSD?) but I was too stoned to understand it. :0) |
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11 Mar 04 - 11:40 AM (#1133929) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: freda underhill if you're interested in other unique instruments, check out this site.. http://www.colinofford.com/enter.html |
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11 Mar 04 - 11:44 AM (#1133934) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: GUEST This web site has instructions on how to make a playable hurdy gurdy for twenty bucks. . . http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/hurdy.htm |
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11 Mar 04 - 12:33 PM (#1133979) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: GUEST,Martin Gibson Even though I am not in the least interested in a hurdy-gurdy, I found it interesting to note that the original poster referred to the musician playing it on the Oscars as "a man" Sting has been around forever and has been quite visable. |
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11 Mar 04 - 12:47 PM (#1133991) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: Willie-O Last fall I visited a fiddler friend to rehearse for a gig--he had a phonofiddle sitting on his piano! I asked about it so he let me play it. HIs old fiddle teacher had given it to him. The playing feel was not too bad, but the balance a little odd, being top-heavy. The sound surprisingly full, but not surprisingly, a little tinny... And now I know what it was. I wish I'd asked him to play it--I wonder what it would sound like with a really good player. He died last month so now I can't ask him. W-O |
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11 Mar 04 - 03:04 PM (#1134080) Subject: RE: I'm looking for a unique instrument From: GUEST,Maurice Stroh replicas are (were?) available from Elderly.com, about $500 |
