Does anyone have the Les Freres Guillemain album Berry-Bourbonnais at home,
who wouldn't mind sending me the list of tracks via email? I have a cd copy of
the recording, but the tracks are named Track01, Track02 and so on, and that
doesn't help any with the tune names. I'd be much obliged if
Here's a very enjoyable dance video, apparently taken at St. Chartier, that a
friend sent me. Great dancers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQB3GWqzCeAfeature=related
Mitch
Actually, my friend was wrong about it being St. Chartier (I had to wonder
about that...it was obviously indoors in a hall). I wrote the fellow in France
who posted the video to ask who the performing group was and where the
performance took place, and his reply is below. The gist of it is that
Mel does still have copies of both books, as of a few weeks ago. I don't know
how many, however. My sense is that they're running out.
Mitch Gordon
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From: Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thu, 22 May 2008 3:43 pm
Subject: Re: [HG] Massif Central
Yours is my favorite so far, Maxou...are you sure the others are
untranslatable?
Please do bring us back a few from JF Vrod's joke session at St. Chartier.
Mitch
Guerneville, Californie, etats-unis
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Hi !
For those who understand a little french, there will
Hello Dana -
AMTA (France) and CubeRoots (UK), previously mentioned, are pretty standard
sources for recordings by the top French trad?players. AMTA is the official
source for recordings by Bouffard, Chabenat, Anne-Lise Foy, La Chavannee,
Vielleux de Bourbonnais, etc., and they are a basically
Roz and I had a horribly frustrating experience trying to see the collection at
Montlucon two years ago. We made a special trip up to there from Riom, which
was a couple of hours of driving as I recall, found the museum, and saw nothing
about hurdy-gurdies in their literature, their posters in
Hah! Useful coincidence that both you and I are on this list, Martin. Which
tells me that you are in the process of learning the gurdy. Super! We should
all get together sometime this summer and play.
For the rest of you, the aforementioned Claudie is the same Claudia Schiller
that sells the
Anyone know the name of this mazurka? Thanks in advance.
_http://www.avocetmusic.com/clips/mystery%20mazurka%20no%201.mp3_
(http://www.avocetmusic.com/clips/mystery%20mazurka%20no%201.mp3)
Mitch Gordon
Guerneville, CA, US
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Hi Scott...that was quick! I'll contact you off-list to try to lay hands on
the original.
Mitch
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Sounds like L'Italienne by Phillippe Prieur converted to a Mazuka and some
notes left out.
Scott
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Great find, Dana! Very impressive playing and the use of the gurdy for Irish
tune sets was quite fun (although a source of cognitive dissonance for an
every-instrument-in-it's-proper-place stick-in-the-mud like me!). And frankly,
his jig set made me want to dance a 3x?bourree to it...but it
RT -
Roz would really really like to get the pattern for the vielle player! Would
you please email me the scanned image of the pattern? Also, is there a
picture of the finished piece on the package that you could send an image of?
Thanks lots,
Mitch (and Roz)
p.s. Coming to OTW this
I contacted NeedlepointUS.com and was told that this design has not been in the
SEG catalogs for at least the last 6 to 8 years. And, according to RT, the
pattern was printed directly on the canvas, so there's no separate pattern like
there usually is with cross-stitch kits (this one was
I need to replace the D petit bourdon drone on my D/G Phoenix. I notice that
the Muskett book calls for a G cello string, approx 1.20 mm, and?I also notice
that the current (broken) string is steel (or some other metal) wrapped. But I
really don't know anything about cello strings, and it seems
Sound like a winner. Thanks!
The Phoenix is pretty sturdy and small, and there's not a huge amount of
tension on that drone string, so I probably don't need to go with the light,
but I'll look into them too.
Mitch Gordon
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From: George Leverett-Altarwind Music [EMAIL
Boudet himself sells an excellent hard case that fits his lutebacks and
presumably other makers' lutebacks of similar dimensions. What is nice about it
is that it provides excellent protection without being overly bulky or heavy.
You can acquire them from his booth at St. Chartier, or from him
I heard back from Helmut and he confirms what the Muskett book recommended,
which is a G cello string in silver-wound gut. I have already ordered a
D'Addario Pro-Arte G cello string in a medium tension, Ordered it from
everythingcello.com, who had very reasonable prices. We'll see how it does!
Hello Kevin -
I heartily encourage you to come to OTW for the whole festival. In addition to
several hours a day of instruction tailored to beginners with Mike Gilpin, Cali
and Alden teach hurdy-gurdy maintenance every morning, which is an essential
skill to have if you're going to own one of
Salut Sylvain -
You must have gone to Chants des Vielles, the wonderful little hurdy-gurdy
festival near Montreal that the Le Vent du Nord guys put on every year. Roz and
I went to the first one about four years ago; haven't made it back,
unfortunately. So much fun, and everyone so friendly.
Here is a link to a transcription I have done of La Montez'Y. I think it's
pretty accurate. It's a cute bourree and very impressive sounding without
actually being all that difficult to play. Now Porquois Pas on the other
hand...clearly Chris Allen plans to make us sweat!
Sylvain - You play central France bagpipe (musette du centre) as well as
hurdy-gurdy? Me also (I only started the musette six months ago). I agree, it
is wonderful to play for dancers and also to play with other enthusiasts of
traditional French music. I hope you can get to a festival in France
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