Thank you, Neil, that's a great list. Some day Monsieur Bassot will get a brother, after I've saved up enough pennies, and he'll be a luteback D/G with a carved head. That's the plan.
Oh, and thank you for teaching me how to get my tangents in tune without scraping off my eardrums and going bonkers (which I did for quite a long time). I watched your DVD early in our restoration project and saw what to do, but didn't remember (besides, I had the wrong kind of tangents for my little old hg). I watched it again (with wooden tangents in place) and now I only have a couple of notes that remain stubbornly wonky. All the Best, Barbara On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:22 AM, gurdymaker <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]<hurdygurdy%[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. > -- 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.
