Hello, Hello,
Am 09.09.2010 um 13:25 schrieb michael:
You obviously have not seen our Hurdy-gurdy Method, which has been rated highly by many players, one high school teacher saying it is the best instrumental method he has ever seen.
sorry if I gave the impression that I do not like your Hurdy-gurdy Method. This is not the case. I just wanted to point out how VERY important a good teacher is, as you too point out in your text: "a book is no substitute for a teacher".
the unavailability of teachers is evidenced by the number of enquiries that are posted to this forum.
the question of availability of teachers is more a matter of personal impression and the willingness to accept whats needed. Many requests come from people who just do not know about hurdy-gurdy players in their area at all, but this list often helps out wit local contacts. Other hurdy-gurdy owners think it would be too much effort to drive twohundred miles for meeting a tutor. All I want to say is: yes its really worth the effort! My first, and very important lessons I got from Claude Flagel in Brussels, about 1200 km away from my home. It was one afternoon, and it was worth all the effort. I benefited from it for years. In the following years I went to workshop-weekends in Germany as there was no possibility to get lessons in Austria at that time.
Especially learning a good playing technique needs regular supervision. Every mistake practiced for one month will take another month of pracicing to be corrected (the more basic musical skills can be aquired from any local music teacher).
I teach hurdy gurdy for many years now, and I have seen many beginners that are constricted by their erroneous playing technique. Many of them never saw someone playing really well and some of them just missinterpreted the method they bought and never got corrected.
So if one wants to learn the hurd-gurdy playing well: go for a tutor and for workshop- weekends as often as possible, ...and the tutors will know about good methods anyway.
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