What´s this musical instrument with a crank on its side?

[Ale]

I was browsing Loreena McKennitt´s web site (http://www.quinlanroad.com/videopage.html) and I took a look at the video The "Mummers Dance"; on the video, arond the 20 seconds mark there´s a guy sitting, cranking an odd musical instrument (I suppose), what is it?



P.S: I´m a big fan of Loreena´s music. :)

[NoClueBoy]

couldnT view the video, but ut's probably a hurdy gurdy.

[Mr. Blue Sky]

A hurdy gurdy (http://www.e-m-s.com/cat/folk/folk/hurdygur.htm)?

[Ale]

Yeah... looks like it.

Now, how the heck is that played??? :confused:

Quote from Mr. Blue Sky link:

A late 18th century French guitar shaped Hurdy Gurdy, fully chromatic over two octaves with six strings. It has a trompette in c, a petit bourdon in C, a gross bourdon in G, a mouche in g and 2 chanterelles in g' which can be played independently.

That´s mostly Greek to me, trompette?, petit bourdon?? and a gross one to boot.
Is this some kind of musical instruments combo? :dubious:

[NoClueBoy]

How a Hurdy Gurdy works (http://users.powernet.co.uk/carlton/gurdy/about1.html)

[Tapioca Dextrin]

Is this some kind of musical instruments combo? :dubious:

More than you ever needed to know (http://homepage.virgin.net/hurdy.gurdy/history.html)

[Ale]

Now I get the picture... but I´m not sure of how it sounds, could it be the dronning instrument at the begining of the song?

By the way, I just checked the booklet in the "Book of Secrets" CD and the hurdy-gurdy player is Nigel Eaton.

[yabob]

Now I get the picture... but I´m not sure of how it sounds, could it be the dronning instrument at the begining of the song?

By the way, I just checked the booklet in the "Book of Secrets" CD and the hurdy-gurdy player is Nigel Eaton.
Very likely. This site has a link to a sound sample:

http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/hurdy.htm

Good for playing while singing songs of love ...

[MikeS]

...and here's a few more hurdy-gurdy sound files. (http://www.midcoast.com/~beechhil/vielle/sounds.html)

[Ale]

...and here's a few more hurdy-gurdy sound files. (http://www.midcoast.com/~beechhil/vielle/sounds.html)


Why, thank you; this instrument sounds a lot like a strings bagpipe. I like it. :)

[Sunspace]

Wow! I had no idea this instrument existed!

If it's called the hurdy-gurdy, how did that name come to be associated with the whole organ-grinder-and-monkey thing?

(Organ-grinders I only know from old Bugs Bunny cartoons, so is that a case of a stereotype that was dying even when the cartoons were made?)

(Loreena... :: swoons :: )

[NoClueBoy]

Build a hurdy gurdy for under $20.00 (http://www.hurdygurdy.com/hg/havlena.html)

I've played one that a friend has. They're fun!

[unclviny]

Very likely. This site has a link to a sound sample:

http://www.s-hamilton.k12.ia.us/antiqua/hurdy.htm

Good for playing while singing songs of love ...

Yabob,
"Motivation is the key".


Unclviny

[Fear Itself]

If it's called the hurdy-gurdy, how did that name come to be associated with the whole organ-grinder-and-monkey thing?

(Organ-grinders I only know from old Bugs Bunny cartoons, so is that a case of a stereotype that was dying even when the cartoons were made?)The organ grinder played a barrel organ (http://www.todotango.com/english/biblioteca/cronicas/organito.html), not a hurdy-gurdy. Though both are played by turning a crank, the hurdy-gurdy is a stinged instrument, while the barrel organ has a bellows that pumps air through reeds or pipes. Also, the barrel organ is limited to the songs stored on the barrel (like a music box), while the hurdy-gurdy is actually played by the musician.

[moriah]

A jack-in-the-box?

[TJdude825]

Did Sting have one at the Grammys (Grammies?)?

[NoClueBoy]

Did Sting have one at the Grammys (Grammies?)?


Yes

[Antonius Block]

Did Sting have one at the Grammys (Grammies?)?
I didn't see the Grammys, but he certainly played the hurdy-gurdy at the 2004 Academy Awards (aka Oscars).