Hey Ken,
What timing for your hurdy-gurdy note!    Just last night I was scanning a
slide of stunning painting of a hurdy gurdy player, lamenting that I don't
have one handy.   I will send the picture to you later today.   We should
team up for a school program I do here using slides of art works through the
centuries with images of music being performed.   Often the musicians show
up in peripheral areas and details, so the slides were mostly created with a
macro lens from photos in books.   For the presentation, I show the pictures
at full wall scale, and then recreate the images with the medieval,
renaissance and baroque replica instruments I have, bringing the pictures to
life with the sounds of the real instruments playing tunes from the periods.
This week I am teaming up with a sackbut player, a cornetto player, a real
1720 violin player, and a virginal to do a show.   You would fit right in as
the street musician.

Making instruments is a gas.  Yesterday, I built a three holed pipe
(recorder-like flute) from 1/2" PVC to be able to match a medieval painting
of a pipe & tabor player, three holed pipe in one hand, drum on the hip and
drum stick in the other hand, the first one-man-band.   You can get an
octave and a half from the little flute.   Easy to play while driving
because it only takes one hand.   Heck with cell phones to distract you from
the traffic, but then, out here the distances between places are so much
greater than back east that overcoming boredom is more of a challenge than
unexpected obstacles.   Anyway, a hurdy-gurdy would complete the show.
What is the Vivaldi connection?    He never wrote for the instrument, so was
some hurdy virtuoso playing an arrangement?

Restoration of historic music is wonderful because you come so close to
actually living it.   It works best if you use the original tools too.
After all, all music is historic.   It only exists while you do it, and then
is instantly a memory, a thing of the past.

cp in bc


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gabriel Orgrease" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 2:28 AM
Subject: [BP] Hurdy-Gurdy & P38's


> The following is a correspondence frm the Hurdy-Gurdy list. It has to do
> with the purchase of a hurdy-gurdy off eBay that looked about as intact as
> the P-38 buried on the beach. Folks on the list were very curious why the
> purchaser was going to a great expense to obtain what looked like total
> trash.
>
>
> HI GUY    LOL...I RECEIVED THE POUGET  ... WELL .. THE  LADY FEEL   BAD
> .. I DONT KNOW IF I WILL BE ABLE TO SAVE HER LIFE  , LOL...       CLONING
> YES FOR  SURE  AND  KEEP HIS HEAD AND KEYBOX ,,WHEEL YES    BUT   SAVE
> HER LIVE ,,???? I  AM ANYWAY VERY HAPPY OF MY BUY  ,   REALY .  BYE
>
> WELL AFTER  A LONG TIME  ME TOO TO LOOK ONE SIDE AND OTHER  ..I THINK  I
> CAN SAVE THE GIRL    OF COURSE I TAKE SOME PICTURES  AND I WILL MADE ALL
> THE PLANS  ,INSIDE IT WAS WRITED   MADE BY POUGET  ARDENTE   1852    ON
> ANOTHER   PAPER IT WAS WRITED  ..  REBUILD  IN 1954 BY
> GEORGE BONNET 53 YEARS OLD
> GERMAINE  BONNET 52 YEARS OLD
> ODETTE BONNET 23 YEARS OLD ..
>
> AND AT ANOTHER PLACE    ANOTHER TAG  VERY OLD THIS ONE     POUGET
> CHATEAUROUE 1859!!!!
>  GEORGE  NOW HAVE 106 YEARS OLD   GERMAINE 105 YEARS OLD ..BUT  ODETTE
> HAVE 76  .THE YOUNGER  LOLLLLLLLLLLLL
> .IF  STILL ALIVE..
>
>  YOU CAN SEE ALL THIS FAMILY  ..THEY PLAY AT ST CHARTIER EACH SUMMER  ,,!
>
> ~~
> ][<
>
> PS. My interest in the hurdy-gurdy began with an obscure Vivaldi album
> that I had many many years ago but have never been able to relocate.
> Currently I am collecting up parts to build the $20 Home Depot version
> (though I have to admit I bought the maple at Lowes) as per the online
> plans of Dennis Havlena who in the $10 CD has a short video where he plays
> various of the home made instruments that he fashions and wears a t-shirt
> that says, "Anyone but Bush, 2004." http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/
> <http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/%7Edhavlena/> I am not sure the make of the
> airplane that you can see in the background. Though there is online
> controversy regarding the sound quality of the $20 hurdy-gurdy I
> particularly like the idea of a scratch built instrument. It seems that a
> real hurdy-gurdy, all of them custom built, costs upwards of a grand and
> that once you get one the next step is to fret endlessly over strings and
> tuning of the sympathetic drones. In the mean time I am building up my
> collection of recordings. Kathy, having put up with my past musical
> endeavors is willing to issue a public WARNING.
>
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