Hello,
about accordeons and hurdy gurdy:
Am 02.02.2008 um 14:38 schrieb Derek Lofthouse:
Given that depending on the tuning (C/G or G/D) most french
HurdyGurdy music is going to be in C,G,D, cmin,gmin and dmin, what
tuning do accordion players use. Actually, what type of accordions
are
Geeze can’t keep a secret on the net. Lucky you to have a builder in the
family. What style is he building? I suppose you already know how to crank a
tractor ;-]
Fi
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Sent: Sunday, 3 February 2008 3:45 AM
To:
i think first things is stop o go on ebay lol
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From: Marsbar
To: hg@hurdygurdy.com
Sent: Saturday, February 02, 2008 9:23 AM
Subject: RE: [HG] accordion tuning
Is that related to IAS Instrument Acquisition Syndrome?
Hi everyone.
It's a kit from a shop in Minnesota, Musicmaker's:
http://www.harpkit.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGYCategory_Code=hurdy
It's a flatback, two drones and two chanters. No trompette. 12 keys. Walnut
with a sitka spruce soundboard. So it's lacking features that many people
find desirable,
Kathy--
My homemade HG lacks a trompette, and it still gets the job done.
Players with more experience than I have (and it won't take much!) may
disagree, but I think the trompette functions much as a rhythm adjunct; it
nicely in accents particular beats, especially in dance tunes, while
Hello,
please, if you change topic, like from from accordion tuning to
something else, also change the mail header.
thanks
S.
Am 02.02.2008 um 21:44 schrieb Leonard Williams:
Kathy--
My homemade HG lacks a trompette, and it still gets the job
done.
Players with more
As a bassist, over the last 10 years, I've grown fond of Pop's brand
of rosin. Is there a group preference to what type of Rodin, which
brand, and the pros and cons of folid vs liquid, this I'd love to know
the difference.
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On Feb 2, 2008, at 13:08, Simon Wascher
Liquid rosin is just a useless complication , use whatever
the fiddle player brought .
Henry ,
From: Minstrel Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: hg@hurdygurdy.com
To: hg@hurdygurdy.com hg@hurdygurdy.com
Subject: [HG] Rosin, liquid or cake?
Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 14:28:21 -0800
As a
Nice kit. The price is good too considering the price of the finished product.
Is the trompette the dog thingy? (ok I'm a newby and totally ignorant)
So what sort of playing do you want to do? Do you play out or are you a closet
instrumentalist?
Fi
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When buying (or thinking of) it's a good idea to ask here first.
The comments regarding these kits are generally unfavourable unless you just
want the fun of making something and you have the skill to do all the rest
of the work needed to get it playing (and the extra money).
It's likely it
thanks Simon,
i was thinking perhaps 2 diatonics was the answer. I think for my purposes,
because i also play a lot of irish and english music B/C or D#/D chromatic
is the way to go. Of course i could always just not get an accordion and
learn to play the instruments i already own.
and
Speaking from the impossibly humid wilds of Louisiana, where within forty
minutes, a perfectly functional instrument becomes slick and squeaky, I have to
speak for liquid rosin. In those situations, all I have had to do was touch
the cotton with liquid rosin, and the h-g went loud and
I know I sound like a broken record on rosin, but whatever you do, do
*not* use those broken chunks of rosin on your wheel: they are what
will ensure that you have too much rosin, a term that actually
refers to badly applied rosin, not a specific quantity. I'm amazed
that even experienced
Depends in part on your particular instrument and playing style, but
most players would tell you to use a hard, crisp rosin made for a
violin. Cello rosins can be suitable for lowed-pitched instruments
like the Hungarian instruments, but I suspect that you'd find their
response a bit slow
Being a fiddler as well as a gurdy player, I use my fiddle rosin,
but, what I use is Liebenzeller, which is rather sticky and heavy
(gooey, if rosin could be such, and it'll pile up real fast on your
bow and strings, but not alot will dust down to the belly of the
fiddle), has gold in it,
From: Marsbar [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nice kit. The price is good too considering the price of the finished
product. Is the trompette the dog thingy? (ok I'm a newby and totally
ignorant)
Yes, the trompette is the string that makes the buzzing effect.
So what sort of playing do you want to do?
I know a lot a people who have bought various kits and made the instruments.
Many of them have been happy with the results even though the instrument
often requires a fair bit of tweaking. What is it about the hurdy gurdy
that makes it particularly unsuited to kit form. Is it the lack of the
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