I think it's onr on those "taste" things. These are some recordings on very
heavy chien work. Sitting around the house alone, I like very light, sparing
doggage, but if I were playing with and accordian, 2 pipers, etc, the dance
might require more, and I would get used to it etc. I don't care for the real
heavy sound on the tape with the Maxou book, but I can understand the
pedigogical function: most of that book is about doggage. That may be the true
authentic tradition, but as a player, I aspire for about half that. I tried
several materials to make a quieter dog, but the crispness gets lost. I like
the sound of maple dogs, but am filing the head ends back to shorten them (per
D&H. There's a bevel where the foot meets the bridge, so the little shim block
is not an option on this gurdy. )
That's about all the discussion I can contribute for now.
Later,
Roy T
----- Original Message ----
From: Minstrel Geoffrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 6:09:24 PM
Subject: Re: [HG] Available from Smithsonian Folkways records: Henry Vasson
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
