Here's a more traditional approach:
A really great folk/crossover band, like Steeleye Span in their heyday.
My former church choir had a small hurdy-gurdy - used it for Christmas carols. Fun stuff!
Posted on 04/14/2017 6:10:24 AM PDT by TexasBarak
This will be worth your time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyIXR3s8OtY
That was cool!
Eluveitie provides a dominant force in hurdy gurdy folk metal (among fiddles, tin whistles, lute/mandolin, and other similar older instruments you wouldn’t expect in metal).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb8WGig0MLU
Here's a more traditional approach:
A really great folk/crossover band, like Steeleye Span in their heyday.
My former church choir had a small hurdy-gurdy - used it for Christmas carols. Fun stuff!
Jimmy Page plays one in The Song Remains The Same in the early part in the backyard at his house at Plumpton Place on Thames.
Another surprise!
Haven’t heard hurdy gurdy since I was a kid back in late 30s/40s!!!
Gotta be a geezer now to recall these things.
Gunny G
(old geezer in a fedora)I retired my ballcap!
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Baseball caps work better for getting in and out of cars! Only real reason for their popularity besides being a convenient spot for logos.
And here’s Eluveitie’s hurdy gurdy-ist explaining how they use it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT89FrGpMLI
Yeah, they turn up a lot when you start searching for hurdy gurdys on YouTube.
I’m really wondering how the hurdy gurdy has never made into Bluegrass- it seems like a natural for the genre.
Yeah...the fedora cult now says that felt hats/mem’s hats, soft hats—fedtras went out of style due JFK in the early 60s going bareheaded most of the time; and the new compact cars (Ford Falcon. GMC Corvair, etc coming in making it hard to wear a fedora and driving). Only the Indiana Jones fliks brought the fedora back, but only to a limited degree.
Thanx for responding’
Dick Gaines
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Great stuff!
It did not make the hop across the Atlantic. Prob bec it had fallen out of favor by the late 16th/early 17th century.
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