Hi Lucas, welcome to the forum! Good luck learning the "beast"!
I never saw Captain's Courageous and now I read that the hurdy-gurdy is part of the plot. That bings me to another question: does anybody know if this also is the case in the book by Rudyard Kipling which was the source for the movie? Bet wishes, Uli -- Ulrich Joosten [email protected] [email protected] www.gambrinus-folk.de Am 07.04.11 23:18 schrieb "Jon Lucas" unter <[email protected]>: >Just received my instrument (finally!) so this seemed a good time to >introduce myself to the forum. I'm a retired Master Mariner living in >a small town near Seattle. I'm especially interested in old Scottish >songs and transcribing themes from classical music and adapting them >to the HG. I've wanted a hurdy gurdy for a long time but it wasn't >practical taking it on ship board. Now I'm retired, maybe I can learn >to play the beast. BTW, I chanced to see the old movie Captains >Courageous the other day and was intrigued to see a hurdy gurdy as a >main plot device. Does anyone know of other movies which feature the >instrument as part of the story, rather than just a walk-on appearance? > >-- >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. -- 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.
