Hello & Happy new year!
it is the first time i write something to the list, so i hope my english
is not too bad. Short before christmas, i was at the Tollwood convention
at munich where i met karl riedel
(http://www.drehleierbau-riedel.de/instrumente/index.php3). He showed me
his "Bass leier/bass hurdy gurdy". It looks exaclty like this guitar
like hg. That instruments has 3 cello strings. It sounded, hmm a
littlebit strange ;) I missed the trumpet (schnarre?) sound and it was
very quiet, so i think you would need an amp. Unfortunately until now,
there are no photos or something available at the homepage.
bye
thomas
Melissa Kacalanos schrieb:
Good point Chris, and that might explain why the
instruments in that link someone else sent sometimes
sound unpleasantly harsh.
But this sets me thinking about a possible solution to
this problem, that would still enable those fun slides
you can get when you don't have a keyboard. What about
strings that you don't press down to a fingerboard at
all, but instead just stop in midair with your
fingers, like you play a gadulka? Or, how about
stopping the strings with a slide like a slide guitar?
Just throwing some ideas out there for the
experimental luthiers on the list. I'm perfectly happy
with my hg as is.
Melissa
--- Chris Nogy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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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
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