Hurdy-Gurdy and Clarinet also works surprisingly well Rauschpfeife and HG is great Krummhörn also works well Bagpipe and HG is fantastic !
HG seems to work with lots of other instruments I have even played HG with a bass recorder (I did have to turn the wick down) Also played with lute accompaniment and one time with Bishops Palace Chapel organ in Wells Graham -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jocelyn Demuth Sent: 17 January 2008 20:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HG] Playing with other musicians... I have a band that includes the Hurdy-gurdy. We are called Diabolis in Musica. We also play bagpipes, shawms, violin, guitar and recorder - not all at the same time. Our hg songs tend to be HG and rauschpfeife duets with guitar and drum backing. The rauschpfeife - a noisy reed instrument is in F and works well with my D/G gurdy. Thus, most stuff we play is in G minor. My gurdy is pretty loud so the rausch. works pretty well volume wise. Our repetoire is medieval and renaissance music (no surprise there) but also some middle eastern stuff. Violin and gurdy also work well but since I'm also the violin player in the band, we haven't really made this work ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 13, 2008 5:03 PM Subject: [HG] Playing with other musicians... > So those of us who play the Hurdy-Gurdy are few and far between. Probably > the farther you get from France, the harder it is to find another HG > player. From what I gather, the HG in France is often in ensembles with > the Cornemuse, accordion, perhaps the fiddle. With the exception of the > fiddle, these instruments can also be quite rare, or if the instrument > isn't rare, then knowledge of the tunes and playing style is. > > How have those of you other lone HG players built ensembles given this > problem? What I'm particularly interested in is what specific instruments > and in what keys you found to be well suited to playing with the HG? I > was thinking the B-flat penny whistle would be good for accompanying the > HG on C-minor tunes (That way, you could find an Irish whistle player, > give them a B flat whistle and away you go). What key of diatonic > accordion would work best? Where would you suggest your guitar player > capo to best work with the HG? > > Thanks in advance for your thoughts! > > -Ian Clemons > Portland, Oregon
