I don't want to get side tracked by religious debate but there were two main religious beliefs/churches in Ukraine - and still is. Orthodox (which itself is split into 3 categories), and Greek Catholics which are similar to Roman Catholics but with special dispensations from Rome eg. priests are allowed to be married if they were so before they took their final vows.
Lirnyky played outside/near to churches( and market/ bazars) because that's where the people cum potential income was - regardless of denomination hence the spiritual,religious and moral content of their repertoire. On the question of wax/cylindrical recordings of lirnyky please read the following - go down the page to an incredible artcle by William Noll ; http://www.loc.gov/folklife/news/Spring93.txt Hope this might be of interest to many HG enthusiasts. Keep the wheel turning Perebendya On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Winters, James <[email protected]>wrote: > Hello, and testing to see if this works, to post in. I do have a few > museum pictures of lira. Also there is one man in New York. I could > describe more. Natalie is in Canada and wrote once to me. She used to > be in Virginia. I have two copies of her book. Her PhD is in folklore > from that region as far as I know, or that is what she teaches for > sure. I wanted to say that this is a great topic in my opinion. > The sociological part of the hurdy gurdy seems to me to be so very > interesting. Poland's history is there, a little too, along with the > Ukraine. I was in Poland once but only to play jazz. Poland is as we > know much more Catholic and the Ukraine more Orthodox. I don't want to > go on too much and I'm not an expert, oh no, only feel interested in > slightly technical writings about the Lirnyk (the people). What this > is about is the Byzantine lira, hence the Orthodox mind set, it seems. > Yet, Polish lira players also existed or where they sighted not blind? > I'd love to read more. I would love if someone has access and > rerecorded the sound on a wax roll to digital such as for a simple > youtube. How happy those very humble people might feel if they could > have even known of modern interest. Life is strange indeed. > > -- > 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.
