Hi All, Just a few notes regarding the Youlgrave meeting on the 26th-28th Sept. The cheques have started arriving, so please keep them coming! We put the...
Hi Paul, Wife very happy about learning some basic French Dance, doubtless I too shall become happy about it in due course :-) Designated tune idea is a very...
Hi Richard, ... Good! ... So far it is only an idea! So.... any volunteers? Any tunes that people would really like to see included in the 'Youlgrave...
Hi All, Richard Haynes has kindly offered to coordinate a 'dots in advance' tune session, comprising some workshop preparation and an 'ensemble moment' in one...
Yes, a maintenance reminder would be handy at any hurdy meet. Now I've got a trompette (and associated D/G hurdy, thankyou Mr Brook!) I'd like to know what to...
A good one for both G/C and D/G hurdy gurdies is "Adieu Les Filles de Mon Pay", although I am sure some of you would find it a trifle slow.Geoff To:...
Talking of G/C and D/G hurdy gurdies - can someone explain the difference in playing a D/G HG ( as I am) and using G/C music (The Muskett Method) as I am...
Dear Kate, This would be my explanation... 1)Begin by understanding that a TRADITIONAL hurdy-gurdy has a scale from g - g - g (This we call two octaves) and...
Geoff, Duly noted. Some of the Morvan Galvacher tunes are very good, I agree. Richard. ... de Mon Pay", although I am sure some of you would find it a trifle ...
Dear All, looking forward to the end of the month and taking up one of Paul's suggestions re CDs, I'm living quite close to Youlgreave and would be happy to...
Now I'm confused ... I "play" (perhaps "have" would be a conservative alternative) a D-G instrument. When I see a "d" on the stave (ie the note below the...
Hi Mark and Richard and Kate and all, I wondered when I read Richard's post whether there might be some replies like this! At risk of making it more confusing,...
So whether an instrument is transposing or not is how you play it. Of course, there may be notes written that you can't play 'coz you run out of buttons to...
... or perhaps, "how you play it from written music". If you are playing folk or traditional music it is arguable whether you really need to - but that's a ...
Dear Mark, I think that what you have been doing is fine IF you only ever play hurdy-gurdy. Actually you are in the 'sixth' and 'hardest' group except that you...
Simple Irish tunes would really be limited to the likes of " John Ryan's", "Egan's" and other simple polkas. They generally have less notes in than jigs &...
Kate, The really nice thing about the membership of this forum is that no questions are daft! I live only about 90 minutes drive from Youlgrave but I have...
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Hi Kate What to do is, even though you are playing a g/c instrument pretend it is a d/g but only while using the Muskett method. Its like playing the same...
Dear All, Michael (who has some gremlins in his computer blocking posting to to the forum) has suggested that I let you know that he is willing to do a ...
Dear all, Michael Muskett asked that I post this: Paul's analogy with the clarinet is a good one. The little used clarinet in C plays C with 6 fingers+ key....
So if I have this right, the C note equivalence from Bouin (I could not track this down easily - there are several Bouins at about this date writing in musical...
I recall seeing a TV program some years ago where they showed a piano used by a well known composer (can't remember his name but he wrote a lot of Sinatra type...
I always equate playing a hurdy-gurdy tuned to another key to putting a capo on a guitar. A guitar in dadgad will be in D without capo, in F on 3rd fret, G on...
The original question was: is the D/g hurdy-gurdy a transposing instrument and what does that mean? YES it is a transposing instrument and that should mean...
