I'm Sergio González Prats, a musician passionate about traditional instruments and early music, in this channel we are going to travel the world discovering musical traditions and beautiful instruments, do you want to come with me?
Hi, very nice video and very well playing. I am happy to watch this because I am building one of Japp's kits for a friend in Sweden. It was a bit of a chance to take, not knowing the quality of the finished instrument, but this ensures me that I can do it. I am building one of his Nyckel-harps too but the Nerdy Gurdy has to come first as we are invited to midsummer party and I want to bring the new instrument if I can finish it in time. I live in Denmark. I agree with you about the extreme good quality of the kit parts. Cheers, JohnnyH-DK
Hi, thanks for the video. I was considering getting a Workshop Medieval gurdy, but am now doing some research and checking out other options before making a decision. Have you got any thoughts about their latest "saga" model? The quality seems to have gone up in the past few years so it would be interesting too hear your thoughts as to whether they are still not a recommended builder.
Is it possible to super-saturate the liquid rosin? (ie. dissolve more rosin into the alcohol than it can normally hold.) I had read that a hot water bath would speed up the dissolve. So I added my pulverized rosin and the alcohol into a bottle, then put the bottle in a pan of hot water. It worked great, and it was all dissolved very quickly. But, after letting it cool down to room temperature, there was undissolved rosin at the bottom of the bottle and it clogged up the pipette. I heated it up again, and again, it went into a beautiful liquid. But cooled down, not so beautiful. Think I need to thin out my mixture!
It's unfortunate that these instruments are so expensive, but I think a silver lining of that at least for me, was that it took a long time for me to decide that I want one and to commit to getting one, a lot of money was on the line so I felt like I had to do as much research as I possibly could to find a good instrument, and I did. For a little while I thought that I would get an altarwind but I put in the research and discovered that they are not worth the money. This isn't meant to be judgmental to anyone else for how they live their life or how they think, but for how much these instruments cost, it's strange to me that anyone would spend little enough time looking into them and put in little enough research that they would ever get to duped into buying a poorly made instrument like this one. Maybe a lot of people buying them it just have a lot of spare disposable money on hand, so it's not as big of a deal to them and they spend less time and thought on deciding what they want, but I think it's pretty likely that most people buying hurdy gurdies, whether they settle for something like this or get a real instrument that doesn't even cost that much more money, or could even be cheaper, are regular people who are needing to spend quite a big chunk of money on it and they need to save up and it's a big commitment for them
I live only 15km away from this museum, and only a few months ago I realized that this exhibition even exists. During the visit, I played a bit on that "try me" gurdy, and a decision was made that day: I had to get such an instrument for myself. I ordered a Nerdy Gurdy, and it's been 4 months since I started playing on it. I'm not a musician so it will take me some time to learn, but this is perhaps one of the most enjoyable hobbies I ever picked up. Most of the text on the wall is referring to gurdies from Eastern Europe (Ukraine, eastern parts of Poland, but not only) from the 19th century. Back then this instrument was an attribute of a wandering bard, usually blind, who could see the future and who would tell stories (or sing) about dark events that await us, while playing dreadful tunes on his gurdy. Such wandering bards were beggars, yet they were held in high respect in villages and the countryside. Many of those paintings are portraying them in similar manner - wind in their hair, unsettling and mystic atmosphere, worried people listening to them. Quite fascinating. If anyone needs translation of those wall texts, I can do that here in the comments. Cheers
Los años siguen pasando y sigo sin zanfona. Tengo que reconocer que nunca daré el paso de lanzarme a por una Saphona pero la Trigo o la Aplo sí son opciones más realistas para mí. Cual crees que es mejor opción para empezar y que no se quedará "pequeña" a corto plazo? Saludos!!!!
Thanks for the great insight, Sergio! I received my Saphona this year and it was great working with Michalina, Piotr and their team. Too bad Sara wasn't there. I had a lot of correspondence with her. She does a great job. 🥰
So cool! Thank you so much Sergio! I am the happy owner of a trigo HG, and I am so glad that you took us to tour the MM shop! Now I know more precisely how it was made 😊❤
This was so cool to see, I knew gurdy is complicated but it's so cool to see the intricate process and management! My dream is to afford one of these one day❤
Wow! Loved the video and being able to view the creative process and those that make the magic happen! ❤ I can’t wait to see my custom electric gurdy in a few months!! Thanks so much for making this video, Sergio, and thanks for allowing us to see the shop, Michalina!!! We appreciate your time and effort!!!
One of those in the shop may be mine. I know it’s in its final stages and should ship in a few months. I’m really excited and the pictures I received a few months ago we’re beautiful. Thank you for posting this video.
@SergeoGonzalez-Zanfoneando What is the difference between modern tangent sound and traditional tangent sound? I put in a deposit for a Marco Gamarra Tenor Kepellbrücke.
@markroberts6322 the only answer is practice, both hands have to achieve a good level of disassociation, think of drums, piano or organ, every limb is equally important
I began my Gurdy Career in December 2023 with a Marie Luise made by Walter Simons and I’m really happy with it. I choose it with a Hurdy Gurdy Player in a Workshop.
Hi Sergio. Great video! Very helpfull. I have been trying to understand this for a long time. I have Soprano Kerboeuf, with 4 chanterelles, so I have G/c and D/G. I have been drawing key box diagrams like Hillsman's. to show how the keys are tuned for each tuning. You mentioned that in G, the large keys are like a piano keyboard, but I don't think they are. This confused me for a long time. There is an f# on the lower keys, which would be a black note on a piano keyboard I think.
Hello, the G keyboard on the alto / soprano gurdies works like on a piano On the tenor gurdies if you still tune to G the instrument behaves as a D/G therefore having F# in the bottom row, tenors need to be tuned to C if you want them to behave as G/C which would be like on a piano So the info of the video is accurate
Thankyou thankyou thankyou thankyou very It's so so simple explain but it will be very high value ..Iam looking for this instrument yrs ago but yet I don't find , I don't get ..from where do I find this instrument? Where can I get this instrument? In our country we don't get this.. Love from India ❤..
