I have noticed, that album, the dog or chen is predominant in the recording. Is this the nature of the instrument of that type? Did they mic it incorrectly, but I thought the chen is an accompaniment, not a predominant sound of the instrument.
Thoughts? Comments? On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Matthew Bullis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I was searching the Smithsonian Folkways web site for something > totally different, and noticed that they had a pull-down box titled > instrument. I pulled it down to hurdy gurdy, and this album came up: > http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=1502 > The album is simply called Hurdy Gurdy music, and was recorded in 1976. It > contains twenty French pieces, and you either have Smithsonian send you a > cd, or you can get it the modern way and download it. They give you two > formats, mp3 and flac. Flac is lossless, and is only needed if you want to > burn a perfect-sounding cd with no mp3 sound loss. The mp3s will do fine if > you want them for an mp3 player though. The pieces seem to be mostly in the > key of C, or at least they were with the samples I picked to listen to. > Anyhow, I thought this might be a cd you'd not heard before, and figured > you'd want to check it out and add it to your collection if you like it. > Thanks a lot. > Matthew > >
