For anyone who likes a challenge, I've massaged the canon to fit on the d/g gurdy. It's on the files in midi. If there are 3 players who get it sorted,and one...
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HurdyGurdyForum@...
Dec 11, 2008 6:42 am
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the HurdyGurdyForum group. File :...
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Augusto de Ornellas A...
augusto_orne...
Dec 11, 2008 6:52 am
how did you do it? did you use the abc or something? if so, could you send us the abc so you can easily transpose it?...
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Neil Brook
gurdymaker
Dec 11, 2008 3:58 pm
I did it the old fashioned way on Noteworthy composer. I'll add that file. Sorry, I don't do abc - it's just too inaccurate for me.--- In ...
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Colin
hillneerg
Dec 11, 2008 4:56 pm
So we are all off to play at weddings now :-) Nice to have it in "simple" form. The usual printouts from midi sources are rather complicated (understatement). ...
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Augusto de Ornellas A...
augusto_orne...
Dec 11, 2008 5:00 pm
pachelbel is evil here is the proof http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM one of the funniest things ever....
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Neil Brook
gurdymaker
Dec 11, 2008 5:17 pm
The angle is not critical, I've seen a wide variation and they all work. The main criteria is that the strings should run at the same angle as the tailpiece so...
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JULIE BARKER
julie909295
Dec 11, 2008 8:31 pm
If you have not clicked-on to the youtube link below do it now, it's brilliant. It's great to know that I am not alone in totaly detesting this particular...
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Neil Brook
gurdymaker
Dec 12, 2008 9:23 am
Sorry, couldn't disagree more. It's one of the cleverest pieces of music you'll come across. Just because it's played often doesn't make it bad music, quite...
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JULIE BARKER
julie909295
Dec 12, 2008 12:10 pm
I think you have hit the nail on the head here. There are particular pieces of music that the limitations of the hurdy-gurdy keeps us protected from having to...
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Augusto de Ornellas A...
augusto_orne...
Dec 12, 2008 12:40 pm
I kinda like it, and having played at my share of weddings, I still enjoy it But, having said that, I think the parody I sent you on youtube is one of the...
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Neil Brook
gurdymaker
Dec 12, 2008 2:53 pm
Seems to me the hurdy-gurdy is a chromatic instrument with nearly 2 full octaves available. The only limitation apart from the need to have drone friendly...
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Jon Redpath
penicuik05
Dec 13, 2008 9:35 am
Neil , thanks for doing the transcribe, its perfect for HG and Concertina. Maybe its just because some people cannot be bothered to learn to read that they "...
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Colin
hillneerg
Dec 13, 2008 12:17 pm
Presumably this guy hasn't learned to read the printed word either - preferring to stick to the "oral tradition" :-) as used by many cultures without a...
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Geoff Turner
gyldageoff
Dec 13, 2008 12:47 pm
There is validity in both arguments. Street musicians for centuries have played without reference to the printed notes, and dance music does not really get...
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Marsbar
semperfidelisau
Dec 13, 2008 1:42 pm
Perhaps it is the difference between can’t and wont that makes the difference. Fi From: HurdyGurdyForum@......
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JULIE BARKER
julie909295
Dec 13, 2008 6:48 pm
I am certainly not designed to play certain tunes; the ones I either don't like or am bored with. There was a time when I pandered to audience requests for...
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Neil Brook
gurdymaker
Dec 13, 2008 8:39 pm
Couldn't agree more - " If you can't please everyone you might as well please yourself " ;-) ... either don't like or am bored with. There was a time when I...
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Jon Loomes
jonloomes
Dec 13, 2008 9:19 pm
I used to play Pachelbel's Canon...until I ran out of gunpowder! Seriously, for those who are into such things, check out the "Warped Canon" page... It's very ...
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Littlehampton Hall
gruck01
Dec 14, 2008 10:28 am
Hello all aussie gurdyists, Cygnet Folk Festival - Hurdy gurdy gathering I, Jane Ruckert am holding a small 2 hour hurdy gurdy gathering at Cygnet folk...
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Augusto de Ornellas A...
augusto_orne...
Dec 15, 2008 4:21 am
what about posting this music on the files section? On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Littlehampton Hall <...
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Richard Katz
hurdykatz
Dec 16, 2008 4:45 pm
I am pleased to have discovered the Hurdy Gurdy Forum. I live in Los Gatos, California, USA (that's 45 miles south of San Francisco). I have traveled to the UK...
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JULIE BARKER
julie909295
Dec 16, 2008 7:20 pm
Hello Richard and welcome. Is that the same Los Gatos that Woody Guthrie sang about? If when you next visit your ancestral home of Sutton Valence in Kent it...
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hurdykatz
Dec 16, 2008 8:21 pm
Hi Philip, Thanks for your note. Your website is very interesting. A description of Woody's song is as follows. I live in a different Los Gatos in Northern...
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Ian Waughman
iwaughman
Dec 17, 2008 2:14 pm
We also had a go in a small studio and I'm afraid that I now feel that the difficulty of recording gurdy combined with the difficulty of recording dij...
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andrewshear15
Dec 19, 2008 11:22 am
Hello to you all . Have just found this site after a bit of a surch of the net for any sign of second hand hurdy gurdys and was wondering if anybody on here ...
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Geoff Turner
gyldageoff
Dec 19, 2008 2:51 pm
Probably the best piece of advice that can be given to a newcomer is "Buy one from a maker, they know how to set them up correctly, and you have more guarantee...
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sylvain gagnon mini m...
lecornemusier
Dec 19, 2008 3:16 pm
is one of yopu bought a instrument from renard finally ? is it a good insatrument ? sylvain http://viellesrenard.free.fr/ ... From: Geoff Turner To:...
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stefan.hemmers
Dec 19, 2008 11:19 pm
Well, i will try to introduce myself. As i am german this might be kind of funny, because of my clumsy english. Some members of this group might allready know...
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JULIE BARKER
julie909295
Dec 20, 2008 12:59 am
Hello Andy Welcome to our wacky world. It's great to have someone from Gillingham wanting to take up the gurdy. I am in Kent just the other side of Canterbury,...
