Hurdy Gurdy: 'A cure for pandemic gloom' - The Times

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Many thanks to u/elektrovolt and u/sanneke34 for making this possible. Your commitment to creating an affordable hurdy gurdy that a person can be proud to own and play is a game changer. I imagine this is a labor of love, and please know that at least the one you’ll be sending my way will be truly a loved instrument. I’ve been waiting for this for 30 years and appreciate that it finally could happen. Thank you! And the thing is much of this would have been vaguely tolerable if there had been any real self-analysis, or real reflection on his actions, or any evidence of growth.

Description of types based on Nagy, Balázs (2006). Tekerőlantosok könyve: Hasznós kézikönyv tekerőlant-játékosok és érdeklődők számára / The Hurdy-Gurdy Handbook: A Practical Handbook for Players and Aficionados of the Tekerő (Hungarian Hurdy-Gurdy). Budapest: Hagyományok Háza / Hungarian Heritage House. ISBN 963-7363-10-6. Archived from the original on 2016-03-10 . Retrieved 2013-10-23. I asked sculptor David Wynne what an artist should beware of in early fame. He replied in an instant--mediocrity. p. 164. A lot of people set out to make a kit instrument with the thought that they'll save a lot of money and get a high quality hurdy-gurdy. It's a nice thought, but not very realistic. It's true that most kits are significantly cheaper than a completed instrument. A parallel might be a guitar kit: you can make a guitar from a Martin guitar kit, but it's very unlikely that you will end up with a guitar that's comparable in quality to a Martin, unless you've already made a whole bunch of guitars and already have the skills to make a really good guitar. During the late Renaissance, two characteristic shapes of hurdy-gurdies developed. The first was guitar-shaped and the second had a rounded lute-type body made of staves. The lute-like body is especially characteristic of French instruments.

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I needed to be part of this family because I knew that pop success endangered my well-being in many ways. p. 164. When he staggers out of his cell, there's nary a soul left, just thirty-two bodies (with the six others missing). available. Some people have good results with them, and some don't, somewhat dependent on the builder's expectations. One Because of the prominence of the French tradition, many instrument and performance terms used in English are commonly taken from the French, and players generally need to know these terms to read relevant literature. Such common terms include:

Tirant: a small peg set in the instrument's tailpiece that is used to control the sensitivity of the buzzing bridge Also included are various string charts to match whichever tuning configuration you use, and a 'Resources' section telling you where to find more hurdy gurdy music online. Azumi, Eric (27 April 2017). "Hurdy Gurdy History: History Of The Hurdy Gurdy". Lark in the Morning . Retrieved 9 August 2023.I always thought Donovan got a raw deal in the endless comparisons with Dylan. I still think he is better. (They 'hung out' together quite a lot.) For anyone who was around in the 60s this is a great read. Donovan socialised or worked with just about any 'name' you can think of from those days of 'free love.' And Donovan got plenty of that too. The speed at which he moved from bumming around St Ives and learning guitar to releasing records and performing major gigs is amazing. Less than a year. I never realised how huge he was in the USA. Bigger than the UK. Hurdy Gurdy bubbles with a convivial, earthy humour and Brother Diggory is an amusing antihero. The prose is highly evocative, full of flesh and blood (.....) This is an entertaining and atmospheric picaresque -- though in the midst of our own pandemic, Wilson's satire of misguided churchmen and unscientific plague doctors feels somewhat quaint: our own leaders appear far more monstrous. Still, it is often ingenious and frequently hilarious." - Christopher Shrimpton, The Guardian The hurdy-gurdy is the instrument played by Der Leiermann, the street musician portrayed in the last, melancholy song of Schubert's Winterreise. It is also featured and played prominently in the film Captains Courageous (1937) as the instrument of the character Manuel, played by Spencer Tracy. Historically, strings were made of gut, which is still a preferred material today and modern instruments are mounted with violin (D or A) and cello (A, G, C) strings. [8] :10–12 However, metal-wound strings have become common in the twentieth century, especially for the heavier drone strings or for lower melody strings if octave tuning is used. Nylon is also sometimes used, but is disliked by many players. Some instruments also have optional sympathetic strings, generally guitar or banjo B strings. [8] :10–12 Diggory's world is one in which there is little point in wallowing in ubiquitous tragedy and loss; Wilson allows for some melancholy and moments of, essentially, horror, but philosophical Diggory's fundamentally cheerful attitude easily leads the reader through what otherwise would surely be the overwhelmingly painful.

It's always hard to tell fiction from fact with Don -i'd like to believe that all stories are true. There was a time when Donovan was on the frontiers op pop music and was hip and happening. The cream of the crop so to speak. A time of magic, peace and love.

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IMSLP: The largest resource of public domain music available on the Internet, and yes, there are loads of scores and music for the Vielle. It's a measure of any book if you are sad to reach the end. I was. Highly recommended to ageing hippies everywhere.

Despite the rather dark subject-matter, Hurdy Gurdy is very much a comic novel, and Wilson shows a deft touch in how he handles all the misery of those times in his story. Franz Montgomery, "The Etymology of the Phrase by Rote." Modern Language Notes 46/1 (Jan. 1931), 19–21. Detail of The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, showing the first known depiction of a buzzing bridge on a hurdy-gurdy

This is a very engaging and informative autobiography. It's also a really good way to set the record straight. Donovan has gotten a really raw deal. His musical importance has been overshadowed by both the Beatles (whom he was friends with) and Bob Dylan(he was also friendly with Dylan) and because he left the business fairly young to follow a more spiritual path and raise his kids. He also lived a more healthy lifestyle and did not let ambition rule his life. He does come off a bit self-aggrandizing at times--only slightly and I believe that part of that is due to being treated as a piece of fluff by many in the musical community and of course among the vultures of the journalism business. He did do many things first that more famous musicians did later and I suspect anyone would get tired of seeing things they did first heralded by the world as revolutionary when done by others. What is amazing about this is that the very people he's accused of imitating or riding the coattails of, have come forward themselves to give him credit including the Beatles, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan. I personally am not a fan of Dylan (he is compared to Dylan most of all)--I never have been--I can admit to his song writing ability but I would rather be tied to a chair and beaten with a rubber hose than forced to listen to his nasal whining and I think he is incredibly overrated. But even Dylan himself has gone on record to say he liked Donovan, learned things from Donovan and gave Donovan his due. He released many critically acclaimed albums in the last decade and was involved in many of the big and important music festivals during the 60's. He's had a long and strong marriage and raised his children with his wife as well as her son by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones. He's continued to write music and poetry. And he comes off as an overall nice guy.