Hello Orest,
thanks for your recherche, for me its very hard to get any
information out u that area because of the language and letters
problem. On the other side its "just arround the corner", I am at a
place right now about 50 km from the Polish border and Vienna where I
live is some 600 km from Ukraine.
My interest is finding out about what acctually goes on in that area
concerning the hurdy-gurdy. So I tend to use "Ukraine" and "Poland"
in a modern georaphical meaning. As the history of this areas is so
complex and unpleasent I rather avoid the lingual, "national",
"ethnic" aspects.
It might be interesting to notice that singing with the hurdy-gurdy
is quite common in southern Germany and Austria too. When I tell
people what instrument I play they often ask in response "and what do
you sing?".
Lokking into historical sources we find a bit of evidence for both,
the hurdy-gurdy as accompaignment for singing and as a dance music
instrument. And there is a tradition for dance songs.
I hope I will get a better view on the hurdy-gurdy in Ukraine and
Poland today by the time. All the hard facts like instrument makers I
enter into the hurdygurdy-wiki. I also will open a wiki-page
collecting links.
kind regards,
Simon Wascher
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have a look at:
http://hurdygurdywiki.wiki-site.com
http://drehleierwiki.wiki-site.com
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my site:
http://simonwascher.info
