Dear all, the ³playing a gurdie¹s keys from underneath² seems to be a Hollywood pattern. Spotting the hurdy-gurdy in Ridley Scott¹s ³Robin Hood² (at least to see in the longer director¹s cut) being played from underneath made me feel pissed. The German subtitels of the score writer (not sure if that was this guy ore somebody else) mentioning the hurdy-gurdy made me even more angry because hurdy-gurdy was translated as ³Leierkasten² what mens of course - ³barrel organ².
So I am not really d¹accord to Arle if we should not react regarding the wiki. Do we really want that music of industry ignorants can display a (probably) hungarian gurdy played with trompette (dubbed by Nigel Eaton) in a movie pretending to show it¹s story located in the medievals ³more historically correct²? Regards, Uli Am 13.10.10 02:45 schrieb "Arle Lommel" unter <[email protected]>: > That recordings page was created to give every idiot who felt compelled to > write that <insert semifamous person here> once <choose one:thought > about/played/looked at/dreamed about/heard about> a hurdy-gurdy a place to put > down their fevered scribblings. Before that was created, these people kept > defacing the main article with their insatiable appetite for insipid trivia. > > So I din't think it's worth wasting time on cleaning up that article in any > way since its sole reason for existence is to keep that crap from being dumped > into the main HG article. > > Just my two cents, but thought you might care to know why that stupid article > exists in the first place. > > -Arle > > > On Oct 13, 2010, at 01:36 , [email protected] wrote: > >> A bit embarrassing, I think. Especially the point where Sting is attributed >> to having played one on the Oscars, and that one is played by the Tom Hanks >> character in Polar Express (no mention of the hand playing it from >> underneath). >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recordings_featuring_the_hurdy_gurdy >> >> At least the article on the gurdy itself is good... >> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurdy_gurdy >> >> Mitch Gordon >> Guerneville, CA, US -- Ulrich Joosten, Nettergasse 35, 41539 Dormagen, Tel. 02133-210900 [email protected] [email protected] www.gambrinus-folk.de -- 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.
