I'm now back in England after an amazing trip to the OTW festival at
Fort Flagler. It was a wonderful experience - great music, food, tuition
and most of all wonderful company - thanks to all for your warm welcome.
If you have considered going but haven't yet made it out there, do it!
You
hi again...
the sound board question didnt seem to be very popular. so lets try this.
regarding sympathetic strings any special rules such as length spacing height
from the sound board... do they have to cover the sound board all the way ... (
i would imagine they would ) how do these issues
yea gary, seems everyone is a critic *L* ... screechers are cool lil guys...
jp
Grey Aengus (aka Jim)
http://www.greyaengus.com
often in error, never in doubt
--- On Sat, 9/27/08, Gary Plazyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Gary Plazyk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [HG] Screech owl
To: Hurdy
harpe de gourde is in french gourde is a containerto put water
when you are in desert , or the recipient the armed forces guys put
water inside ,, it can look coconut shell,,, or alluminium bottle
with green cloth cover all around ..or ? gourde is a water
My mother used to grow ornamental gourds.They were like different shaped
pumpkins and had very hard skin and very watery insides like vegetable
marrows or zucchini that just dried up and left the hard shell and a few
seeds maybe rattling inside. The larger ones you could carefully cut the
top
The chinese gourd flute, hulusi, is made from a fairly small gourd.
Stan
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Marsbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My mother used to grow ornamental gourds.They were like different
shaped pumpkins and had very hard skin and very watery insides like
vegetable
The Australian group of virtuoso musicians, Totally Gourdgeous, plays on all
manner of instruments made from gourds.
I seem to recall a gurdy for sale a couple of years ago made from one.
Greg
- Original Message -
From: Marsbar
To: hg@hurdygurdy.com
Sent: Sunday, September 28,
Lurker here
Some years ago when I was looking into gut strings for my HG (to keep
this kind of on topic), I ran across this fellow who makes gourd Banjo's.
http://www.gourdbanjo.com/GBhtml/intro.html
Justine
I have a snake charmers flute made from a gourd and technically the sitar
uses gourds for the big resonators. A Hurdy gurdy made with a gourd might
be a bit delicate I imagine. Mind you it is possible to laquer a gourd into
a pretty tough shell.
Fi
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