Re: [HG] sympathetic strings

2008-10-09 Thread Roy Trotter
P.S, I neglected to mention: per DH Guitar B (metal) is recommended for every tuning. Roy On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM, Roy Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- On Sat, 9/27/08, Jim Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the sound board question didnt seem to be very popular. so lets

Re: [HG] sympathetic strings

2008-10-06 Thread Roy Trotter
--- On Sat, 9/27/08, Jim Petersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the sound board question didnt seem to be very popular. so lets try this. Guess I missed that one.   regarding sympathetic strings any special rules such as length spacing height from the sound board... Never seen any rules.

Re: [HG] builders' group

2008-10-02 Thread Roy Trotter
I thought I had one of spontaneous lanches that Alden mentioned ( and I get on Gmail sometimes) So I'm trying again on Yahoo. I agree with this crowd, for the simply selfish reason that I am fully recovered from surgury and no longer have time to chase groups. These things spring up from

Re: [HG] Available from Smithsonian Folkways records: Henry Vasson

2008-07-21 Thread Roy Trotter
I think it's onr on those taste things. These are some recordings on very heavy chien work. Sitting around the house alone, I like very light, sparing doggage, but if I were playing with and accordian, 2 pipers, etc, the dance might require more, and I would get used to it etc. I don't care for

Re: [HG] Townshend HG

2008-06-28 Thread Roy Trotter
WHO? Pete Townsend? Wasn't he one of those baggage handler guys at the airport? Later Roy T On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 12:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [HG] A passionate newbie full of questions

2008-05-29 Thread Roy Trotter
Does this mean that only one person (using French costume) in the entire continent is allowed to use a hurdy gurdy in reenactments? No, but only one getsto show up on the news. lol?

Re: [HG] Metal strings for HG

2008-04-09 Thread Roy Trotter
I tried Viola G strings for Low chanters and found that they usually break within an hour. NOt flexible enough. I really wasn't pleased enough with the tone quality to persist with them, despite the low price and availability. Roy On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Mike bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HG] Music

2008-04-09 Thread Roy Trotter
We discussed an index in San Antonio, and are very limited by the copyright issue. Some very popular tunes : Les Poules Huppees, Avant de s'en Aller, and that one about the Limosine Piper are copyright. Sometimes the tune isn't, but the publication is. Tread carefully, it would be useful to have a

Re: [HG] DISPATCH , page IV and final

2008-04-07 Thread Roy Trotter
DInner was delectable and we delected it to our hearts' contents. We went back to the house and talked, I was to brain-dead to be playing. Assumedly the rest were beat too.. I turned in at 10:30 and to all appearances was the last man standing, so to speak. I got in the car with Seth and Cathy

Re: [HG] DISPATCH , page III

2008-04-06 Thread Roy Trotter
For supper -yesterday- we had a lovely pig-out on mesquite-smoked BBQ, brought in by Micheal Laird. At 8 PM we gave the concert. We had collected a series of tunes we could play together, and we played under starlight ( and artificial light) in the side yard. As we exhausted the repertoires

Re: [HG] Where Hardware Where!?!?

2008-03-24 Thread Roy Trotter
. Custom machine shops here won't look at a job under $500, so if you can get a shaft for $45 I really believe it's a bargain. Incidentally, I am not connected with any of these suppliers. Barry - Original Message - From: Roy Trotter mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hg@hurdygurdy.com Sent

Re: [HG] Where Hardware Where!?!?

2008-03-23 Thread Roy Trotter
is not inaccesible and I don''t know what I'm going to do next time Good luck either way. Roy Trotter On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 6:45 PM, Douwe Boschma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone, While I am waiting for Nagy Balazs to start with the tekero I ordered I tried to channel my

Re: [HG] Sephardic Tunes

2008-03-23 Thread Roy Trotter
Thank you for asking. I have been steeping in the irony.. It seems to be a bit culturally insensitive, but if I may paraphaase Jon. 'Man v woman = woman right. I will return to the cheap seats and wait with baited breath until the other shoe drops. Roy - Original Message From:

Re: [HG] So now what?

2008-02-18 Thread Roy Trotter
Strenght comes with practice. So can carpel tunnel. Keep them wrists straight! Judgement comes with experience. Too much rosin is a very temporary problem: it's easy to remove it by holding a rag to the wheel and cranking a few times. or if you can stand it, just play and it will come off by

Re: [HG] So now what?

2008-02-18 Thread Roy Trotter
(nope) I still like to watch the experts cotton, ever hoping to catch something I may have missed. Get some live help, if you can...if not shall we pray for you? --- Roy Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strenght comes with practice. So can carpel tunnel. Keep them wrists straight

Re: [HG] purpose of my new project.

2008-02-06 Thread Roy Trotter
Confidential to Chris, this is not the worst (not the Best either) of the old recordings. I don't own any of the field recordings under discussion. I have heard enough to lose interest The biggest problem in the early recordings is lumpy wheels and squeal. There was something on Youtube of a

Re: [HG] alto details

2008-01-09 Thread Roy Trotter
I was standing on the sidelines hoping to see the response. I was disappionted that there wasn't any. I don't know anything about altos. If anybody else does they are not talking. I might be one of those dirty secrets Someone might know, but they are ashamed of the knowledge... I'm thinking

Re: [HG] WAS:Kit or no kit? NOW: Mystery pegs

2008-01-09 Thread Roy Trotter
--- sylvain gagnon mini moteur 2000 inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what,s about these small stell parts (pins) on the side of luteback i saw on some instruments .my pouget have ..but ,,what is the function of this ,,no strings are attached to this,,..i dont understand..why they are

RE: [HG] WAS Hello NOW it's not...

2008-01-01 Thread Roy Trotter
I think you have a realistic attitude. One reason the ornaments are so complicated with the pipes is due to limitation with that particular instrument. I would suggest a spiritual interpretation of the tunes you love. Attempting a gracenote=by=gracenote transfer is not going to ever be

Re: [HG] To all Hurdy Gurdists where ever you may be!!!!

2007-12-24 Thread Roy Trotter
I'm about where you are with that . No kids around, so the afternoon is pretty much grub and football. I will bring the HG and people will view it as a threat and Bob's yr Uncle, etc. With any luck I'll get to go home early and play. I think I'll go play right now. Later, Roy On Dec 24,

Re: [HG] Cotton

2007-12-15 Thread Roy Trotter
I have had more luck with the spinners, a lot of historical festivals will have a good number of ladies out demonstrating spinning (also weaving) and every time I have stopped by to watch and discuss sources they have given me a sample. But the point is they know where to get it. Telling them what

Re: [HG] Wheel cover s

2007-12-10 Thread Roy Trotter
That detail often gets omitted. It might be that the part is so simple that it looks like it wouldn't need to be mentioned, or the plan is a copy of an extant antique and that part was lost... The tension of the bent (aced) wood with attempt to flatten out over time. So the cover itself is

Re: [HG] Wheel cover s

2007-12-10 Thread Roy Trotter
to play, with it on. For some reason people that eat stick/greasy food with teir fingers like to wipe them off on the wheel. Beats me. HTH, That ought to be enough to give you some ideas and get you started. Have fun, Roy On Dec 10, 2007 5:02 PM, Roy Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [HG] Building Questions

2007-12-08 Thread Roy Trotter
On Dec 7, 2007 4:11 AM, Roy Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- john tappan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we're talking angled shaft AND beveled wheel? This gets more interesting all the time! Well, right there on p.57 is a picture of it (3 actually). You could probably get

Re: [HG] Building Questions

2007-12-06 Thread Roy Trotter
GImmee a day or two to find and consult my notes. The essential idea is that either the shaft or the drones are going to be parellel with the soundboard. I don't remember wht. Angling the shaft lowers the wheel-end. This alloww for a bigger wheel in a smaller space, c. Then the bevel on the wheel

Re: [HG] Building Progress

2007-12-04 Thread Roy Trotter
Well, I got in, looked at the pictures and posted a reply. Hope it helps. I didn't see any way to post the pictures, but I'm going to round up something now, so I'll look again d'reckly. Given the differences in end-grain on that angle, I would recommend banding the wheel anyway, unless you want a

Re: [HG] Building Progress

2007-12-04 Thread Roy Trotter
(Oops!) DIsregard as needed. Roy On Dec 4, 2007 10:54 PM, Roy Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I got in, looked at the pictures and posted a reply. Hope it helps. I didn't see any way to post the pictures, but I'm going to round up something now, so I'll look again d'reckly. Given

Re: [HG] Good cotton source in Pacific NW?

2007-11-23 Thread Roy Trotter
My parents got some volunteer sping up in their backyard. We harvested about a dozen bolls last week. (One plant!) I don't know whether it would need to be cleaned or what. I'm reluctant to just jump in and try it, but I think it's wool that has the lanolin,,, If anybody knows how treat raw cotton

Re: [HG] Good cotton source in Pacific NW?

2007-11-23 Thread Roy Trotter
Sorry I'm working from the top of the list down... Boll is the clump of cotton. And I lve in Texas, so do my parents. We also have a lot of Locally grown cottonwood, but the name is pretty metaphorical. Roy --- ivan ad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, does anyone try to planting cotton? i

Re: [HG] mute for HG

2007-10-15 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Augusto de Ornellas Abreu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I wonder if any of the makers around has ever fiddled with a design for a mute for the gurdy, much like the ones violin / viola / cello players have? I mean, some sort of device that would dampen and lower the volume of the

Re: [HG] I'm on youtube again

2007-10-10 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Melissa Kacalanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do seem to wind up on youtube a lot... and here's an interview in which I'm slouching terribly: I have been called down on a couple of occasions by our fellow list-members about my excessive flirtation at you. I do apologize if I need to: I

Re: [HG] OTW Festival essentials?

2007-09-11 Thread Roy Trotter
I would suggest , if you are dependant of coffee, to bring some instant or bags, They do try to keep coffee going, but them big pots take a while, so . The sheets hang over big wooden rods (2 or 3) Safety pins should be sufficient. These might be available over the counter (the Association has

Re: The Listmaster speaks: Re: [HG] My page about Asturias and Galicia - long

2007-08-29 Thread Roy Trotter
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the Listmaster says: This is far enough off-topic that I'm going to restrict it. Everyone who has something to say about this subject may make ONE more post before 9:00 Pacific time Wednesday. AM or PM? Basically you all have 24 hours to speak your

Re: AW: [HG] was Hurdy Gurdy at Newport Tall Ships, now: Gurdyspotting

2007-07-06 Thread Roy Trotter
I agree with Matt. There are better reasons to watch that movie than the gurdy scenes...although that clunk is priceless. I don't think Capts C would have inspired me to play...as a player, it does make the hair standup on my legs to see my true love on the screen with Spencer Tracy. But that

Re: [HG] tune in Captain Coragious movie

2007-07-04 Thread Roy Trotter
Welcome back everyone...and even if you don't live in the US or Phillipines, Happy 4th anyway. --- marcello bono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course you can play it with hurdy-gurdy (maybe I did ten years ago during the OTW festival :-). I don't remember you playing, but I remember you

Re: [HG] Unknown recording

2007-06-22 Thread Roy Trotter
it WAS... Not familiar with that one maybe 'it was... Vouvray'( I keep finding MP3s on my computer of Gilles playing that one ) Good luck with that one. --- Arle Lommel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just found an mp3 file of a contemporary HG piece on my computer, but I have no idea where it

Re: [HG] Another gurdy for sale : (It's Ok, don't worry about it)

2007-06-11 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Simon Wascher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, excuse my unprecie english: One of the problems with English is that there is a limit to how precise you can get. Anyhing preciser is just more words. I'm not really joking, but I'm not very serious either. Later, Roy

Re: [HG] GAL hg plans

2007-05-18 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Stan Leake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Roy, The plans do have a chromatic row. This has been added to the design, which was based on an instrument in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum. The plans show a capo, also added, I am sure. I have not seen the write-up in American Luthier

Re: [HG] Tout le village, etc. Tranposing.

2007-05-18 Thread Roy Trotter
Good explanation from Derek, also you might can have your .abc program transpose to C. That's the way I do it. Later, Roy. --- DEREK LOFTHOUSE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Welcome to the great Schism in HurdyGurdy land Seth. Basically there are two ways of setting up the instrument G/C tuning,

Re: [HG] GAL hg plans

2007-05-17 Thread Roy Trotter
I finally got a look at those plans with Juan W. and Stan L. a couple of weeks ago. I'd say go for it. The plans are pretty clear, we didn't really determine if the soundboard has any radius, I think there is the standard guitarmakers radius (8 to 30 feet which is there to keep the top from

Re: Re[2]: [HG] Restrictions ,etc.

2007-05-16 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's not a HUGE list is it? Once one starts splitting up things then it opens up a can of worms. Are we to have country-specific threads? Although it's nice to know what's happening, I live in the UK and, as such, can't just hop over to a US gathering.

Re: [HG] A newbie welcome

2007-05-15 Thread Roy Trotter
And excuse me if I have come across as aloof, or (not not come across at all, I guess) I have been getting announcements that external mail was cut off here at work and I haven't been home much. It now appears that it was a reference to something they did to the internal i.e. work, mailbox. not

Re: [HG] Ave Maria

2007-04-08 Thread Roy Trotter
Hey, sorry I missed the wedding. Got tangled up at work ( I was the only one here,) and couldn't get free. I think I know that tune if you don't get any better deals, we might could write it down. Roy P.S. Ave Maria arraingements is a funny thing to be thinking about on yr honeymoon. . . isn't

Re: [HG] More technical questions

2007-03-31 Thread Roy Trotter
Good luck on that. I'd like to know myself, but didn't think of the question. I am designing a test-gurdy to find out what exacly is the optimal effect of wheel distance. I guess, I could build in a moveable chein bridge (a.k.a. doghouse), but need to think about that one a bit On 3/30/07,

Re: [HG] Drilling the shaft bore..

2007-03-26 Thread Roy Trotter
Hey Seth, Hope your Orca arrived in good order, and am glad to see yr still interested in building, and not just PLAYING ALL THE TIME. I would recommend the jig as a plank at least 3/4 inch thick by probably 3 -4 inch wide, although that's variable. So is the long, but it needs to be at least the

Re: [HG] hole size for the shaft???

2007-03-15 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Arle Lommel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Seth, I'm not sure why drilling out that hole would impact a wah-wah sound. It is instead drilled out to allow the shaft to pass through it, not to support the shaft. ...your ideal system would contact the body only at the head and tail

Re: [HG] HG Building

2007-03-14 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Seth Hamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oops, I meant to send this to Roy . Oh well I guess everybody got it... Thanks and Oh well.. Since everybody's seen it now, I should point out that I didn't build that oneyet. It's kinda like that big stature that they dug up in Rome: just a male

Re: [HG] Wheel position/Pictures of my first Gurdy I made

2007-03-10 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Arle Lommel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only thing is when you get past about the 7th or 8th tangent the sound is scratchy... Is their something that causes these higher notes to screach when you get to the tangents close to the wheel? Hi Seth, sounds like your string's

Re: [HG] WAS: Instrument title Now: Splitting Hairs

2007-03-05 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Sarah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In view of the fact that the right hand is crossed over to the left it should be called a CROS-RIGHTY-PHONE which happens to be an anagram of CHRISTOPER NOGY Willum Thanks, I feel better already. ( now for something comepletely

Re: [HG] Antique Hurdy Gurdy's

2007-02-21 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Seth Hamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: this site has the pics... http://home.comcast.net/~musictreasures/antmisc.htm Ok That's what I was looking at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately the photos are unavailable on this one. The Mirecourt builders (the Colsons and

[HG] One swell foop

2007-02-17 Thread Roy Trotter
Pretty good Hg list traffic today. So far I could answer all of the post with Thanks or I don't know. Interesting tho' Later, Roy

Re: [HG] For those with the Dewit book..

2007-02-16 Thread Roy Trotter
The book also says the distance between the wheel and the tuning box is 343mm,,, Shouldn't that be the distance between the main bridge and the two smaller bridges at the end of the key box 343 is to the bridge, not the wheel. That's another thing, like pegwall height that needs to be

Re: [HG] Re: For those with the Dewit book..

2007-02-16 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Seth Hamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another ?.. Ok I realize the vibrating length and placement of the main bridge is depended on a length of 343mm from the nut at the end of the key box... Ok here's the question. To get the main bridge in the right place from what

Re: [HG] A new project, Was: Bruegal NOW: De La Tour.

2007-02-07 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Daniel Musick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That de la Tour show at the Kimbell was what first turned me on to both gurdies and the painter himself. My wife I, living in Oklahioma at the time, had come to see another show entirely and the de la Tour was an extra that I remember much

Re: [HG] A new project, Bruegel

2007-02-06 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Matthew Szostak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and it seems to be tied down with some leather, or something (nope, that's a shadow). Hey Roy- Don't get yourself in trouble again, for goodness sakes!!! What's this again business, More like ...Still I see the square buckle beneath

Re: [HG] Was: Hello Now: Welcome Bill

2007-02-06 Thread Roy Trotter
I will most probably be annoying the members of this list with random questions about repair techniques, wild suggestions for experimental actions, and various other things that pop into my head: The only really annoying stuff is when I don't have an answer. given your range of experience,

Re: [HG] A new project, Bruegel

2007-02-05 Thread Roy Trotter
But what is that our hero holds in his left hand? I had read that it was the crank handle: which is completely visible still on the instrument... that would puzzle me. Is it perhaps the key to tune the sympathy strings? Mine is brass... which would have consideralbe more impact than a wooden

Re: [HG] A new project, Bruegel

2007-02-05 Thread Roy Trotter
There was a Georges de la Tour tour that came to the Kimball. I think I hav3e already recounted the tale of how I was nearly evicted from the premises and my girlfriend became an ex. (No, relax, I just got too enthusiastic.) According to the write-up lemon juice was a common test for blindness and

Re: [HG] A new project

2007-02-03 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Chris Nogy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, we all know that the progression historically of the vielle was big organistrum - box sinphone - Bosch. Period. Right? They occureed in that order, but the psalters and Cathedral art that feature organistrums and box - sinfonies also have

Re: [HG] Sympathetic string tuning pegs

2007-02-02 Thread Roy Trotter
The only time I've even seen a zither, I couldn't afford the depost for a test drive, so it might not be the same thing but... My knee-jerk reaction was autoharp pins. They are quite a bit larger (in diameter) than the pins on my HG and are not tapered. The pin-head is square, so the tuning

RE: [HG] Building question

2007-01-31 Thread Roy Trotter
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Re: [HG] the new guy

2007-01-25 Thread Roy Trotter
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The steps to tuning properly are to tune the string to the desired note (probably G in your case). Then with the octave key tangent 90 degrees to the string (that would be key 7 from the head of the instrument with the tangent hitting the string straight

Re: [HG] Music

2007-01-16 Thread Roy Trotter
(aka Maxou) which is invaluable for a more sophisticated approach to working the dog. I got my copy from Dusty Strings as well. Google is your friend. Later, Roy Trotter Solberg, Bennett J LCDR NMIMC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. I broke down and figured that the wood

Re: [HG] Best wood for a wheel

2007-01-12 Thread Roy Trotter
That seems to be the wheel-wood of choice there days. But you truly do want a laminated wheel. H. Gotschy's book recommends adding a half inch Lamination of Maple on either side for a prettier finished product. You would also be better satisfied with a band around the contact surface. I used maple

Re: [HG] Symphonie Project

2007-01-11 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Seth Hamon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can punch square holes with my mortiser machine really fast... oooh, can I watch? Arle Lommel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seth, Don't give up! The reason is probably that the slots are too large. What you can do is take thin strips of

Re: Re[4]: [HG] Drones vs. Key Changes, was Irish?

2007-01-10 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Chris Nogy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The other trick my teacher used was to take a piece of heavy posterboard about 30 x 15, put a string through the corners on one long side, and hang it around my neck like a shelf to block me from watching while my left hand worked complex lines of

Re: Re[2]: [HG] the new guy

2007-01-08 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Chris Nogy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree, the sinphone style (early HG without - usually - chien) is great for being part of an ensemble, an accompaniment to strings and woods, as it is a mellower sounding instrument that blends easier (due to the absence of the buzz). It is not

Re: [HG] I'm on youtube again

2007-01-07 Thread Roy Trotter
I found that the other day, ( nice to see it again tho) it was offered beside something else somebody sent me a link to. I don't know if I can say this grammitically: I would have let you know had I known you didn't know... or something like that. Now I'm looking for time to seach all the you tube

RE: [HG] Making and playing musical instruments Book

2007-01-06 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Reymen Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No I'm not I stay in Belgium the land of Belgian fries and beer.. (I still don't understand why you call them French fries.) Actually we usually just call them Fries. In Texas, just about everything IS fried. I thought Belgian Fries were what we'd

RE: [HG] Banjo heads

2007-01-02 Thread Roy Trotter
It might work for resonating the sympathies. I would think BONGO (not Banjo) heads would be more appropriate and just have these little membranes under those bridges. I'll admit the question was much more interesting before I fig'd out what she was REALLY talking about. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [HG] Georgia Gurdy Gang??

2006-12-12 Thread Roy Trotter
P.S It's gratifying that my missions trip last October dod not go in vain. On 12/12/06, Roy Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Puhleese, I prefer the word congregation. Those of you that hang out on college campuses a lot may have heard someone singing a song about Hail Sinfornia

RE: [HG] Which way shall I turn?

2006-12-10 Thread Roy Trotter
... judith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Trotter Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 1:50 AM To: hg@hurdygurdy.com Subject: [HG] Which way shall I turn? I have decided that I need to build a lute-back, for several reasons

Re: [HG] Christmas tune suggestions?

2006-11-26 Thread Roy Trotter
Cool. Thanks Roy --- Ruth Bramley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me Have Nagila' is a Seasonal tune. Although my jewish colleagues tell me : Hannukah is really that sort of holiday, there are no songs it seems to cheer them up to include them in the party...and you so seldom get to

Re: [HG] Did we get anywhere with a Gotschy translation?

2006-11-03 Thread Roy Trotter
of Helmut... His pic's are very good but some more info is needed to build for yourself. I'm writing in English and will publish on the web, unless some real publisher is welcome to contact me... -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Roy

RE: [HG] Did we get anywhere with a Gotschy translation?

2006-11-03 Thread Roy Trotter
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Roy Trotter Verzonden: zaterdag 28 oktober 2006 7:14 Aan: hg@hurdygurdy.com Onderwerp: [HG] Did we get anywhere with a Gotschy translation? Seems like there was some discussion of working on an english translation of Helmut Gotschy's Bau einer

Re: [HG] Opinions! Sound Holes!

2006-11-03 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Billy Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, from a stormy Turku, Has any one thought or wondered what the effects to sound,tone or volume,openings or sound holes, that are in the tops under/inside the key boxes on some Hurdy Gurdies have? Yes, I have... I THINK that each soundpost

Re: [HG] hg accompanying contortionist, belly dancer

2006-11-02 Thread Roy Trotter
HEY! I finally got a post, after a week! Missed y'all! --- Melissa Kacalanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Purists, do not click on these links to see my band (inlcuding me on hg) accompanying a contortionist with some belly dance stylings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtBOuluUFfE and

Re: [HG] Another trial balloon

2006-11-02 Thread Roy Trotter
to anyone who doesn't approve of these modern fusions of contortionism and belly dance. Melissa Roy Trotter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Maybe she DOES have that much charisma...) whatever is blocking these posts, Melissa's links got thru I thought that drought might be over, but my

RE: [HG] hg accompanying contortionist, belly dancer

2006-11-02 Thread Roy Trotter
PLLLT, I saw that. --- Judith Lindenau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Melissa! Hey! We told you to drop Roy off your mailing list!!! (grin) BTW, Mellissa, I am enjoying your CD. judith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy

[HG] Fell off HG list?

2006-10-29 Thread Roy Trotter
Havn't received anything (including my own posts) Since Simon announced his wiki. I have recieved a couple of personals replying to My posts. SO apparently I can post, others, can read, but I am not seeing anything on the list. Usually the wierd stuff happens to our colleagues in the UK. Be

Re: [HG] More Hurdy-Gurdies coming to Georgia

2006-10-27 Thread Roy Trotter
OK we came, we saw, we left. All in all it went pretty well. So John-Paul is a player, he has a Dugue. I didn't get to play it, but Gilles did, and he didn't look miserable about it... sounded OK, but then Gilles was playing it, so what did you expect. Tracie got to pet my Siorat. Actually I

Re: [HG] was Celticness and Arts funding NOW: Last one, I promise, I'm fixin to shut down and go to bed.

2006-10-14 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Tracie Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michele, Roy, how come I've never met you at that session?! I was looking forward to seeing Michelle, but I knew that. Now I have another to look forward to meeting. Maybe we can have a session!!! Like HGs I have 2 harps, one I built and one I bought.

Re: Re: [HG] From the Savannah Morning News Today....

2006-10-13 Thread Roy Trotter
Oh, that's those real deep one's.They are the same from the top as the Lamberts but the soundbox is twice as deep. It seems I remember M. Bouffard saying something about that. Roy --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is at least one Celtic tradition of HG playing , in

Re: [HG] Re: Silicon Spray

2006-10-13 Thread Roy Trotter
I got mine at Micheal's --MJ designs. It was in the Pinewood Derby section. --- Pat Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cali, I had sticky key questions before and you mentioned you would send me some teflon powder and instructions. It was just before your big festival and I am sure you

Re: [HG] Celticness, Sessions and Accents

2006-10-13 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Eaton Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Roy Trotter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 October 2006 09:37 To: hg@hurdygurdy.com Irish sessions are boring with dragging out the same 30 tunes every time and we have to play the version

RE: [HG] Re:WARNING: Luthierie again (well almost, kinda, sorta)

2006-10-07 Thread Roy Trotter
--- Smishkewych, Wolodymyr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An oudman in Texas? I think my good friend and early music/Irish trad plucked strings virtuoso Chris Smith might be one, in Lubbock, though I don't think he is a maker...or an oudier. Heck, 'Luth', 'laud' and liuto' are all from 'al-oud'

Re: [HG] seeking email address of Catherine Keenan

2006-10-07 Thread Roy Trotter
I had one ( in europe) a couple of years ago. I'll share it if I find it. Haven't heard from her in a long time. If you contact her, tell her I said xoxoxo... --- Matthew Szostak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all- Catherine Keenan used to be a list member; perhaps she still is. She lived

[HG] Re:WARNING: Luthierie again

2006-10-05 Thread Roy Trotter
As previously mentioned. I am restoring my original Dewit trapeziodal to playing condition, so I'll have something to play while I repair the Siorat luteback. This is a crack in the (lute) back which will required it to be unstrung for entirely too long. I know this because I have fixed it

[HG] OTW photos, deWit scale length, and a few other snide comments.

2006-09-27 Thread Roy Trotter
Welcome home, everyone! I went to the OTW homepage, saw the Photoseveryone looks so glum of expressionless...did you miss me THAT MUCH? ( Yes , as a matter of fact I DO think that song is about me...don't you? ) But thats not what I'm to talk about I'm here to talk about ... DEWIT. CAVEAT:

RE: [HG] Collective Nouns

2006-09-14 Thread Roy Trotter
I always thought so especially since my friend ( orchestra director) told everybody she met that she had heard a Hurdy-gurdy. I thought it was OK that it was just me and not 6 of us. In which case she would have ...(oh, nevermind, you get the drift). --- Eaton Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are

Re: [HG] oriental tunes

2006-09-07 Thread Roy Trotter
WOW! ...I mean ...just... just...WOW! --- Melissa Kacalanos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to prove that tribal-style dancers will dance to anything, here's a video of some very talented dancers improvising to some improvisations of my band, Djinn: http://blip.tv/file/51231/ Yes, all

Re: [HG] Costumes

2006-09-02 Thread Roy Trotter
Arle, There are some extremely detailed paintings by (broadly contemporary) Georges de la Tour on the internet. (please google, I can't find the links). Apart from mostly religious themes he did a series of street life subjects including a half-dozen-or-so depictions of a blind hurdy gurdy

RE: [HG] Costumes

2006-09-02 Thread Roy Trotter
Yeah, kinda like the drawing, not like the photo. I had to tie the sleeves above the elbow just to play guitar, fiddle was OK tho' Roy --- K S ROE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arle, Another option might be to go more like a Savoyard (French wandering peasant). Check out the patterns at:

Re: [HG] Turkish hg (why not?)

2006-07-27 Thread Roy Trotter
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