I know that " In America nothing is impossible " but I have serious
doubts about the presence of a
hurdy gurdy at the time of the civil war .
I am a HG player and a F&I war re-enactor , I still hope to find a
solid evidence of a HG in New France ( 1600-1759)
wich is the Baroque music period , but so far found only one mention
of a HG player who made
his own instrument in Louisbourg 1750 , in present day Nova Scotia .
quite far from the Montréal area .
and another mention for Québec city in 1632 , the one shown in the
film " Black Robe " .
( in " Relations des Jésuites " year 1632 )
In the american civil war period , where would the HG come from ?
what model could it be ?
who would play it ? what rerertoire ? If it was that popular at the
time , how come almost
nobody in the US knows what it is today ?
Henry
http://fortress.uccb.ns.ca/Search/fprim5.html
Gary F. Plazyk a écrit :
Hi, Barry!
It all depends on who you are talking to about it... For a
fascinating look at both the war and the people that reenact it, check
out _Confederates in the Attic : Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil
War_ by Tony Horwitz.
I have only been to reenactments in the Midwest - not the really
serious ones that take place at the historic battle sites - and have
seen a whole spectrum of participants, from families that attend for a
weekend-long combination campout and costume party, to serious
historical reenactors that demand period thread-count in their
clothing and live in their costumes for weeks at a time to get a
"period high". I'm much more middle of the road - I wear period
costume, play (more or less) period music, and they feed me. I like
to think a fun time is had by all.
Best regards,
-Gary P.
Barry Black wrote:
Wasn't that the "war of northern aggression"?
