Hurdy-Gurdy

Post by **Dale** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 8:58 pm

Can anyone recommend a good hurdy-gurdy recording?

Dale

chas · Post by **chas** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:08 pm

Donovan, of course.

Just kidding. . .

If you're looking for it in Irish music (I suspect you aren't, but what the hey), Andy Irvine plays it. He plays on Planxty Irwin on the black Planxty album.

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 9:23 pm

Commercial recordings of sound samples?

sample:
http://www.midcoast.com/~beechhil/vielle/

glauber · Post by **glauber** » Tue Mar 30, 2004 11:29 pm

DaleWisely wrote:Can anyone recommend a good hurdy-gurdy recording?

Yes, and can anyone recommend me a square circle?

Chas Zee · Post by **Chas Zee** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 12:54 am

glauber wrote:Yes, and can anyone recommend me a square circle?

ok:
http://www.magictricks.com/stage/sqcircdec.htm

Björn · Post by **Björn** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:20 am

Anything by Nigel Eaton should be good:
http://music.onino.co.uk/music/music_of ... y_the.html

Also, there are tons of french records with the hurdy-gurdy:
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/xaime/vielle/vieldisco.html

Baglady · Post by **Baglady** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:23 am

Here's some good stuff.
http://home.swipnet.se/kometen2/faust/index_eng.htm

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 10:34 am

Vielleux du Bourbonnais "Vielles et Cornemuses"

Ad Vielle Que Pourra "New French Folk Music"

These are group recordings with other instruments (French bagpipes, accordions, and fiddle mostly).

MarcusR · Post by **MarcusR** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:32 am

Fy Björn, gå och ställ dig i hörnet!
Länka till utrikiska band när det finns så många bra nordiska lira spelare ...

BTW, Welcome to C&F if nobody said it before.

Harald Petterson is an exceptional person and a great multi-instrumentalist. He plays in numerous constellations check out “Lure” (use to be called “Valramn”) and "Raun" if you want to hear him on hurdy-gurdy. Two of the other memers of Lure Esbjörn Hazelius (mandola, fiddle, pipes) and Fredrik Bengtsson (Bass) also play ITM together Marco Pollier and Kevin Ryan in the band "anEitre". For some more contemporary Swedish hurdy-gurdy playing “Garmarna” is well worth a listening. If you want a complete listing Dale, go to the Hurdy-gurdy Discography web site

Lure/Valramn
http://www.lure.se/jonslure.mp3
http://www.lure.se/vagen_hem.mp3
http://www.lure.se/blaretudan.mp3
http://www.drone.se/english/DROCD033.html
RAUN
http://hem.passagen.se/raun99/lyssna.html
Garmarna
http://www.garmarna.com

Baglady wrote:Here's some good stuff.
http://home.swipnet.se/kometen2/faust/index_eng.htm

Faust is a great band and Alban is also a good pipemaker. If you check out his website you'll see some new pics of his wooden whistles.
http://www.albanfaust.se

All the best,

/MarcusR

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 11:39 am

Recordings by the Hungarian tanchez and folk band Musikas feature hurdy gurdy very effectively. I'd recommend Marta Sebasteyen's self titled album with the band. (She sings with them as well as maintaining a solo career.) Hurdy gurdy in no way dominates the instrumental backing but that is probably a good thing. Since the other aspects of this album are so wonderful, it's a painless introduction to the instrument.

Pat Cannady · Post by **Pat Cannady** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 1:55 pm

chas wrote:Donovan, of course.

Just kidding. . .

If you're looking for it in Irish music (I suspect you aren't, but what the hey), Andy Irvine plays it. He plays on Planxty Irwin on the black Planxty album.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that's a harmonium you're hearing. It does have a similar timbre to the hurdy gurdy.

A note of caution:

Hurdy gurdies or Vielles a Rue are high-maintenance instruments- sneeze on them and something breaks or goes out of tune. They are also tricky to play.

Jeferson · Post by **Jeferson** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:17 pm

Nicolas Boulerice is a good player who performs with Le Vent du Nord from Quebec. Neat thing is that he picked up the instrument just six or seven years ago as a result of what their website calls his "fascination with the curious" (sound familiar?).

The fellows are charming and they clearly convey their lust for life and music through their music. Their band blows, as all French speakers will recognize.

Their site...http://www.leventdunord.com/

Jef

Wombat · Post by **Wombat** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:20 pm

Pat Cannady wrote:
A note of caution:

Hurdy gurdies or Vielles a Rue are high-maintenance instruments- sneeze on them and something breaks or goes out of tune. They are also tricky to play.

There was a time when I was tossing up between hurdy gurdy and uilleann pipes. I ended up settling on concertina but a lot of issues of luck rather than choice finally went into that decision. (If you play a lot of other instruments, concertina still seems to me like the wisest choice.)

MarcusR · Post by **MarcusR** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 2:34 pm

Pat Cannady wrote: Hurdy gurdies or Vielles a Rue are high-maintenance instruments- sneeze on them and something breaks or goes out of tune. They are also tricky to play.

A friend of mine got one a few years ago and it only took him a few days to get one or two tunes down, solo that was. I still haven't heard him play it together with others. His summary of the Hurdy-gurdy was:
A minute to play - A lifetime to tune

Great sounding instrument though.
Cheers!

Lorenzo · Post by **Lorenzo** » Wed Mar 31, 2004 8:51 pm

I've been keeping an eye on them on ebay for a couple years.
Right now there's about 32 items, mostly recordings, but some instruments.

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dl ... urdy+gurdy

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