I can find references to "Ninera" but what I found so far shows it to be a keyed instrument
That instrument is very similar to the "Strohl Fiddel" drawing in Praetorious' "Syntagma Musicum II" published in the early 17th century As it is an instrument of great antiquity I suspect it is rather more than a "musical novelty" On the other hand, perhaps they never worked ??? There is a French luthier producing similar instruments in a modern style Very inexpensive too !! http://www.berneluthier.fr/cordes.htm Graham -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Nogy Sent: 02 January 2008 02:27 To: [email protected] Subject: Re[2]: [HG] Hurdy Gurdy Ninera We spend a great deal of time making sure that the string is at the right angle and pressure to the wheel. When you stop the strings against the fingerboard on this instrument, you are changing all that - and worse yet you are changing it differently at the high notes than you are at the low notes. Kinda like playing a guitar with the action set too high at the nut, and too low at the bridge I cannot see this being more than a musical novelty at best, and the hardest beast in the stable to tame at worst... Chris *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 1/1/2008 at 8:50 AM Don V. Lax wrote: >How the heck would you play it, is what I'd like to know... as a >violinist it looks like an interesting but daunting challenge.... >aloha- >don > > >On Jan 1, 2008, at 7:15 AM, Seth wrote: > >> http://cgi.ebay.com/Hurdy-Gurdy- >> Ninera_W0QQitemZ150200811295QQihZ005QQcategoryZ623QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZW >> D2VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122 >> >> >> This thing look's kinda neat.... Seth
