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

[Helmut Gotschy]

Hi Melissa, when I was hanging around to the Kycade islands (Naxos) many times in the past 30 years, I have realized that most of this folk music there is a kind of drone music. (Not the Zorbas-stuff) On many pieces the bouzuki plays mostly one single chorus. This music is quite similar to some Turkish mediteranean music plaid with the saz. I think if they would know the gurdy, they would use it. It works perfect. Also Pascal Levebre did some Arabian and middle east pieces in the 80's. Has anybody the disc LLB 80S. This is some very relaxed "pot"-music.   Go on Melissa, make  gurdy-world-music !!!   Regards to all Helmut ----- Original Message ----- From: Melissa Kacalanos To: hg@hurdygurdy.com Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 4:41 PM Subject: [HG] Turkish hg (why not?) I know that hg isn't traditionally used in Turkish music, but here's a tune that my band just learned and recorded last night: http://www.djinnnyc.com/Music/Djinn//Practice/Djinn-Practice-07252006-RumeliKarsilamasi.mp3 It's in 9/8, and the maqam is kurd. The performance isn't flawless, and the recording quality's not great, but you get the idea.   Also, hello to Scott, who mentioned that he's found hg players on myspace. Is there a discussion group there? I started a hg discussion group on tribe.net (which is like myspace, but with a more mature population in general.) http://tribes.tribe.net/hurdygurdy but it doesn't get a lot of traffic. The goal was that it would be a way of discussing hgs without filling up our inboxes. For example, someone could start a thread about kinds of wood to use to build hgs, and I could ignore that thread because I don't build hgs. But the fact that it isn't used much, while this list is, probably means that people are pretty happy with this list. I know I am, despite all the emails I delete.   Melissa Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free.