Hi Barbara Firstly, you need to get hold of a D/G hurdy-gurdy as that's where the notes are for most of the Irish repertoire.
I have recorded a couple of dozen Irish tunes with a D/G instrument just to see if I could and they very different to than French tunes. I won't say harder because to play both styles require far more input than just playing the notes. French playing generally needs more in the way of grace notes and ornaments . More information can be found here: http://www.hurdy-gurdy.org.uk/irish.html Cheers Neil On Mar 16, 5:13 am, Barbara Currier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, folks, > > Do you have any Irish tunes you like playing on the G/C hurdy gurdy? > > No, I'm not going to insensitively invade some unsuspecting Irish session > this Wednesday, I just want to play something fun on St. Patrick's Day. > Sonny's Mazurka is pretty good, but honestly doesn't sound very Irish to me. > Sounds Scandinavian. > > All the Best, > Barbara -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "hurdygurdy" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hurdygurdy The rules of posting, courtesy, and other list information may be found at http://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.
