https://forums.chiffandfipple.com/t/new-spin-on-something-old/84987/1
That was really cool!
I didn’t know what a hurdy-gurdy was or how it worked. I wound up here: an interview with a hurdy-gurdist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT89FrGpMLI
Which took me here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msRy4vcSX4k
and then HERE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8WGig0MLU
“I’m in that weird part of You Tube again…” 
Oh yes, we’ve had several, ahem, conversations about Eluveitie on the board.
Bet you didn’t know the Swiss are so … angry.
The bad man’s scaring me, Mummy! 
That was fun…
one of the threads (can’t remember which, now) commented that the bombarde was the original heavy metal instrument.
Found this – bombarde and organ – pretty amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKBCAgoBHY4
Pièce de musique ancienne de Girolamo Frescobaldi, transcrite pour bombarde et orgue et jouée par Jean-Michel Alhaits et Jean-Pierre Rolland.
My husband could hear it all the way across the house w/ the office door closed.
What in the world makes it so piercing? It’s just an oboe-ish thing, isn’t it?
Meanwhile – sorry about the thread drift – please tell me more about the hurdy-gurdy. I didn’t know anything about them other than the mention in the Donovan song.
Ben Grossman at TEDxWaterloo. Not your typical hurdy-gurdy repertoire, although Ben has been known to play more traditional stuff in other venues. You can hear his hurdy-gurdy on several Loreena McKennitt albums.
One of the novel features of the hurdy-gurdy is its floating bridge: one foot is anchored, the other is held against the soundboard only by the pressure of the strings. If you crank the wheel hard enough, the free foot starts bouncing off the soundboard. That’s what allows Ben to produce that percussive attack when he wants to. The medieval version of a distortion pedal.
Can’t believe I missed those…
I just went on a Wikipedia trip starting at the band’s wiki page. They have an album (almost) entirely in Gaulish.
Gaulish, guys. Seriously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evocation_I_-_The_Arcane_Dominion
I find it a bit more palatable than examples previously posted, perhaps because they seem to be letting the ladies sing more. Less yelling. Reminds me a bit of Miranda Sex Garden (a precursor to Mediaeval Baebes).
One track has lyrics taken from the Chamalières Tablet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya-zOiiCd6U
And boy, it sure sounds like a curse.
Great vid, thanks for the headsup!
“Bagpipe…violin…pasta machine…all rolled into one thing”
The medieval version of a distortion pedal.
I’d like to see some research done on the effects of Trad music on neurotransmitters. The 18th century version of SSRIs? 