Re: [HG] An Intro, and a HG for sale.

[Wolodymyr Smishkewych]

Hi Ted! good to see you on the list. Thanks again for the photos of the duda! cheers, Vlad On 24 Oct 2006, at 18h32, Theodore Ceplina wrote:  This is an akward introduction, it's best to look at my myspace http://www.myspace.com/naadbrahma,  but here goes... I am new to playing the hurdy gurdy, but have know about it for quite a while. I play and study many kinds of music, in particular Hindustani music, Korean court music, and Latin American music. But  for quite a while I have been into the bagpipes, and especially the many kinds of gaita found throughout Spain in particular Galicia. It was through Galego music that I heard the hurdy gurdy for the first time, and after a few years determined I needed to get one. Last summer I decided to attend Saint Chartier, what a better chance to get one. So now I have a wonderful instrument, only that I cannot afford to keep it at the moment do to many financial obligations that keep getting in my way, so that brings me to the selling part.   The instrument I am selling is nicest hurdy gurdy I could afford at Saint Chartier, and I am extremely happy with it. It's a guitar body model by Neil Brook, currently strung up in G/C, but I had it in D/G for a while, and it was amazing. If anyone is interested in it please contact me off the list and I can email you pics and more details about it. I know once I am better off I am going to get another hurdy gurdy, most probably a lute backed one from Neil, I like his work, and the sound of his instruments. Once I get up and running in the future with another instrument, I hope to use it to perform tango music, as it has a tone simular to bandoneon, and would accompany singers well. Anyways, enough rambling. Ted