Arle Lommel wrote:
This one is performed a violone, so you can hear that the wheel is out and
the rosin is less than ideal.
This is mentioned in the notes (
http://lfs.alexanderstreet.com/liner/2dc384e01e7f768afacc547b9b5e8d1c/FW08747.pdf
) :
'The instrument is played in what they call "fiddle imp
itation". The musician takes off the wheel all the strings
but one chanterelle, producing a very light melody, without
le rhythmic effect and the drones. This type of music is
rarely done by home musicians, but rather by the "profess-
ionals" who used to go from a village to another until the
turn of the century. .Mr. Vasson, who is a "home musician"
don't give a very good idea of how the hurdy-gurdy is close
from the fiddle, as he plays in such a way every ten years
or so. Furthermore, his instruments produces many har-
mnics, the string being a little bit too high on the bridge.
I have tried to make him.play on another instrument, but even
the devil can't change the mind of an Auvergnat. The tune
played here, "Walking Through the Wood", is a "regret", a
sorrow. It is the expression of blues they have there.
Regrets are as long, sad and lonesome as the bourée's are
fast, happy and lively. They generally have words, but
the musicians proclaim people would cry if they hear them!'
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