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8708 JULIE BARKER
julie909295 Send Email
Jul 26, 2012
9:43 pm
Just to let you know that i will be doing a beginners hurdy-gurdy workshop at Broadstairs Folk Week on Monday 13th August 10-11.30 Crampton Tower Museum...
8709 Mike D
miketdennison Send Email
Aug 13, 2012
7:39 pm
Just noticed Item number: 290759860726 Anyone recognise it or got any info? Mike...
8710 Scott
fahnreich Send Email
Aug 13, 2012
7:59 pm
I had to go get glasses and look at this on my computer to read it. You may want to increase the size of the font on your computer. It is just too tiny to...
8711 Paddy
paddybutcher... Send Email
Aug 13, 2012
8:49 pm
Hooray! There is life in the old forum. Reluctantly selling my lovely Chris Eaton lute back HG. Can be seen on e-bay; 330777986614, or viewed any time by appt....
8712 Mike D
miketdennison Send Email
Aug 14, 2012
12:26 pm
Ooops - sorry Scott & all Think the email must have picked up the font properties from the item number on the Ebay page that I copied/pasted and I forgot to...
8713 gem.dennis Send Email Aug 17, 2012
7:32 pm
hi. im comming to the end of my hurdy gurdy project(4 years)and the last part i must make is the wheel cover.the key box and the tail piece are made of ebony...
8714 cwhill
hillneerg Send Email
Aug 17, 2012
9:57 pm
This may be an odd request and maybe not allowed but can I point out that this clip isn't from anything that has been published or released commercially (it...
8715 Rafael GarcĂ­a
duke_elington Send Email
Aug 18, 2012
8:59 am
Hi, I have no experience with the cover because I made my gurdys without them. But I have seen that  the cover is made completly (with wood purfling) befor...
8716 Lorna Joy Shashinda
lornajoy Send Email
Aug 18, 2012
8:59 am
I have two sources that may be able to help us. I'll see what I can do from the wilds of California. --Lorna...
8717 Weldon Gray
gray_weldon Send Email
Aug 18, 2012
9:00 am
Hi there, my name is Weldon I have just joined your Gurdy group I am a medieval Luthier located in Canada. Saskatoon Saskatchewan To be precise. I have just...
8718 cwhill
hillneerg Send Email
Aug 18, 2012
9:00 am
In a word, you can't unless you make very thin laminations and even that's not going to bend enough I would think. You can't soak ebony as it's impervious to...
8719 Neil Brook
nwbrook@... Send Email
Aug 18, 2012
11:07 am
Hi Dennis The best way is to make your cover in maple and then inlay the ebony - no thicker than 1mm . The completed ebony veneer can then be glued to the...
8720 Andy Carter
gerbilroyd... Send Email
Aug 18, 2012
7:19 pm
Hi Weldon, Not quite a full-on gurdyfest, but there's a French fest in Hebden Bridge in October. There will be a gurdy workshop given by Steve Tyler...
8721 Andy Carter
gerbilroyd... Send Email
Aug 18, 2012
7:32 pm
Also see http://www.halswaymanor.co.uk/courses-and-events.htm for 8th - 10th Feb 2013 for The Big Hurdy Gurdy Workshop Weekend :-) Cheers Andy Sent from my...
8722 pamacs24 Send Email Aug 19, 2012
10:44 am
Hi all, I've just come across with this site, general hurdy-gurdyness with Hungarian emphasis: http://tekerozene.uw.hu/ I know it is mainly in Hungarian, but...
8723 Weldon Gray
gray_weldon Send Email
Aug 19, 2012
3:08 pm
Thanks Andy we checked it out and I think it is something that we might try to do. First we have to figure out to fly and how to get there having never been...
8724 Andy Carter
gerbilroyd... Send Email
Aug 19, 2012
3:40 pm
Last year I picked up a gurdy traveller up from Bristol Airport. Its about an hour / hour and a half from there via camper van! Cheers Andy Sent from my...
8725 David
dtsmithnet Send Email
Aug 21, 2012
7:44 pm
Hello, I have been searching through the Hungarian website that was posted a few messages ago and found a link to a real nice tune that sounds great on HG....
8726 Enzo Puzzovio
dante.f... Send Email
Aug 21, 2012
10:23 pm
Hello David, According to http://imslp.org it forms the first part of '3 Hungarian Rural Dances' by Leo Weiner, published in Budapest 1941. I can't say whether...
8727 Lorna Joy Shashinda
lornajoy Send Email
Aug 22, 2012
8:14 am
Here is another video link for this dance, giving more background. It is also the traditional melody that I know. The version as played by the gurdy group (and...
8728 gem.dennis Send Email Aug 23, 2012
8:33 am
thanks everyone for their suggestions,i think i will try neil`s method using maple.anyone one know of a good veneer suplier thanks dennis...
8729 Neil Brook
nwbrook@... Send Email
Aug 23, 2012
9:55 am
Hi Dennis Ebony is best bought sawn - not veneer cut. Touchstone Tonewoods sell it. Cheers Neil ... Best regards Neil Brook nwbrook@... Hi Dennis Ebony...
8730 gray_weldon Send Email Aug 23, 2012
5:39 pm
Hi Dennis. I am the new guy from Canada I have been following your conversation about the Ebony wheelcover. I have a suggestion, if you are not set on Ebony,I...
8731 Cecilia Kovacs
pamacs24 Send Email
Aug 24, 2012
4:09 pm
Hi, It's Cecilia shedding the light... This is a Hungarian folk dance tune that was arranged by Weiner. It is a quite wide-spread tune, but most typically ...
8732 gem.dennis Send Email Aug 24, 2012
6:53 pm
hi weldon thanks for the reply, i am intrested in your idea, have you any details of your dye...
8733 jimlcck Send Email Aug 24, 2012
9:31 pm
Hi everyone, I'm a new memeber and long time lapsed player. I joined with the intention of selling my Henri III EMS kit that I built over twenty years ago and...
8734 Lorna Joy Shashinda
lornajoy Send Email
Aug 25, 2012
1:02 am
I'd appreciate reading any replies to this, so please reply to the list. Ta! --Lorna...
8735 Desdemona Ekaterina G...
desdemmonna Send Email
Aug 25, 2012
1:03 am
I believe there may be an older version of this in one of the Romani compilations by Dr. Eva Davidova. Let me check!   ________________________________ From:...
8736 Weldon Gray
gray_weldon Send Email
Aug 25, 2012
8:21 am
Hi Dennis, http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=20081&cat=1,190,42942 This is a link to Lee Valley , the store where I buy the aniline dye . (...
8737 JULIE BARKER
julie909295 Send Email
Aug 26, 2012
8:52 am
Has anyone on the list sold a Gotschy Phoenix gurdy in the last year or so? I know of one that could be for sale very soon but the potential seller does not...
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