Thanks to all responders on Irish and Scandinavian tunes. This has been interesting.
Barbara On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Barbara Currier <[email protected]>wrote: > 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.
