I looked on the OTW website and see they have beginner classes. I unfortunately cannot attend but was wondering if there was a video recording / dvd which would provide the same information. I certainly realize the media is not rich enough to capture everything however it might be a good start for someone such as I.
Vr B LCDR Bennett Solberg, PhD, FACHE -----Original Message----- From: Louise Craig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [HG] Re: 2007 OTW Tunes To find the 2007 tunes, click on "Hurdy-Gurdy Festival" then "Classes" (or http://www.overthewater.org/festival/07_classes.shtml). Scroll down and look at the left of each class, for some of the classes there are links to the music under the title "Music" for each class. Hope that helps. Louise On May 17, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Seth Hamon wrote: Thanks so much... i couldn't find the 2007 tunes on the over the water fest site. 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, which your Orca sounds like it has. What that means is the open note on the chanterelles is a G, and the open scale from the 3rd key is 'c'. Your drones are probably G and C. Gilles Chabanet calls this Classical tuning. The other tuning, commonly known as Bourbonnais tuning is D/G tuning, the open note is D and the 3rd note scale is G. Gilles, who did the arrangement of tout le village... plays an instrument with 4 chanterelles, but comes from the Bourbonnais tradition so most of his stuff may go down to the D. As to how to play the tune, either transpose it or pop up the octave when you go below G. I think most of the music posted for the 2007 otw is playable on the G/C tuning there are tons of tunes out there for the g/c instrument so dont dispare. hope this helps derek ----- Original Message ----- From: Seth Hamon Date: Thursday, May 17, 2007 3:11 pm Subject:: [HG] Tout le village ignore qualain est mon amant > > Tout le village ignore qu'alain est mon amant , I got this > tune from the OTW website... I pulled up the PDF file and noticed > it's written in G. I learned to read music as a highland piper so > I'm really no good at transposing tunes... This tune is written > below the low G, or note on the 2nd line of the staff... How does > this work on the gurdy.. I've also noticed some are written with > this in mind and other tunes go below the open G note and even > below the open D if it's set up for the key of D... I'm missing > something... I'm guessing on this tune the C below the staff > would be the 3rd key on the diatonic part of the gurdy, but I'm > confused I use the 3rd C key for the C in the middle of the > staff... Hope this make's sense... Seth >
