Just got back via Eurostar and thought you might be interested in the current stock situation in Andre' Bisonnet's emporium. Put your bibs on now and prepare...
Hello all! I've joined recently and been "lurking" a bit - reading the archives, and enjoying the current threads. I don't play the hurdy gurdy - yet! - but I...
Hi Mary, I suggest you join the USA mail list and put your question there There are several East Coast players You can join via http://www.hurdygurdy.com That...
Thank you, Graham- I have joined that list already. It is a very "quiet" list, though, compared to this one, and I've found through experience with other...
Hello people, The big announcement. You may recall me talking a while ago on the forum about a proposed mini fest for hurdygurdies to be held in Chesterfield...
Hi Mark, Just googled André Bissonet as I'll be going to Paris at the end of November and if I have time would like to have a peek in the shop and found this...
It's in Le Impass de la Mule just off Le Place de Voges in the 4th arrondisment, Metro Bastile. Philip G Martin aka Drohne www.drohne.co.uk ... From: MARK...
Dear Mary, Â Â I am a HG player of the past 6 months in southern NH.I have a HG by Melvin Dorries of Hurdygurdycrafters.com.Whereas tis HG has required quite...
Dear Robert: Thank you so much for the encouragement - and all the good info. :-) Yes, the internet is a wonderful resource. I even know people who give harp...
Robert - I forgot to ask- what model did you get? What do you particularly like/dislike about it? I'd actually like to hear that about any of the HG Crafters...
I may be in the unique position of owning an instrument by Neil Brook, the Wren, and an instrument built from a kit by Mel Dorries, HurdyGurdyCrafters.com. See...
Dear Mary, Â Â My hurdygurdycrafters HG is a modified Monarch kit model.the standard $999 do-it-yourself kit with a slightly larger body and a chanter bridge...
Hi Robert: I don't know what your scale length is, but have you tried violin strings for your chanters? A wound string (like the violin string) would give...
Robert and Mary, My HurdyGurdyCrafters.com Monarch kit - came with strings for unison G/C tuning only because I requested G/C tuning. The Monarch instrument...
Dear Jon, Â Â You mention unison chanter tuning as being "harsh".I have not found that to be the case at all ONCE I got each of the two unison chanters...
Greetings,  Few things I like better than talkin' HG! What strings you ask?  There is so much subjectivity to string selection.... "Wow that sounds good...
Dear George, Â Â Thanks for the tip.In the meantime,I have checked with Jon Steel who has the same HG model and is using a Corelli Crystal violin string for...
It was a brilliant weekend. I understand the workshops with Gilles Chabenat were scary, challenging and fantastically informative! The playing in the evening...
Anybody have sheet music, lyrics and/or MIDI file of this cut from Eaton's Pendemonium CD? Or know of a place I can find them? "Like the Snow - The Chimney" ...
Hi Jon, This is from the track listing (according to this review: http://www.cdroots.com/hojo-pandemonium.html) 5 Like the Snow/The Chimney (Sydney Carter arr...