It is indeed a ukulele (more appropriate than a HG to take to sea methinks). http://www.gillygaloo.net/docs/08_instr.htm#uke It's more usually spelled with only one T. The machette being reserved for the big knife used to chop you way through a jungle.
Colin Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: wsteinmayer To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 12:37 AM Subject: Re: [HG-new] Re: Greetings all... On Apr 8, 2011, at 2:30:50 PM, "Jon Lucas" <[email protected]> wrote: From: "Jon Lucas" <[email protected]> Subject: [HG-new] Re: Greetings all... Date: April 8, 2011 2:30:50 PM EDT To: hurdygurdy <[email protected]> I must confess I have not read the book, though I am going to now, to find out precisely what you asked. The story revolves on the little boy inheriting the instrument from the Portugese deckhand, so Kipling must have used some instrument. Perhaps a concertina, if he didn't know about hurdy gurdys. On Apr 8, 12:05 am, Ulrich Joosten <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? & gt; > >-- > >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 > >athttp://hurdygurdy.com/mailinglist/index.htm. To reduce spam, posts > >from new subscribers are held pending approval by the webmaster.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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 fro m 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. Having read "Captains Courageous" once, many years ago, I had a vague memory of a "queer little stringed instrument" referred to in the text, called a 'machette'. I did a search, and that is indeed the instrument. It's basically the ancestor of the ukulele.. -Bill -- 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.
