Caroline Phillips: Hurdy-gurdy for beginners

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www.ted.com Caroline Phillips cranks out tunes on a seldom-heard folk instrument: the hurdy-gurdy, a.k.a. the wheel fiddle. A searching, Basque melody follows her fun lesson on its unique anatomy and 1,000-year history.
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@irateofwatford 11 лет назад

"Seldom heard"? My neighbor in the apartment upstairs gets to hear it any time I chose!

@JohannesGeworkianHellman 3 года назад

Haha!

@DoubleADwarf 6 лет назад

I can't be the only one to think putting a three-minute ad at the end of a five minute video is INCREDIBLY tacky.

@Riplee 3 года назад

well anything that long is skippable, & at least it’s not at the start, it’s where you’re likely to leave before the video is even done? For the quality of these videos, I see no harm in them trying to earn a little, and they do it in a less intrusive manner than some others might have it..

@DeathMetalDerf 8 месяцев назад

Far from the only one, my guy.

@ericlindemann2558 7 лет назад

There is just one tiny little mistake in mentioning the hurdy gurdy: it also was used in Germany and Austria. So if you like, here is theGerman name of the Hurdy: "Drehleier". Even today, we have quite a big community which is playing Mediaval Rock and Folk, using the "Drehleier" :-)

@villevunge6624 7 лет назад

+Eric I think most european countries have had a tradtition of playing hurdy gurdy..

@nachtpfoetchen 7 лет назад

Also in ukraine

@MrPleers 6 лет назад

True. In the Netherlands it was played as well. It's called a "draailier" here.

@bonnylark 4 года назад

Also, there are guitar-shaped gurdies, as well, like my little Bassot. And Celtic is pronounced Keltic. C never makes an S sound in Gaelic. The Boston Celtics are the exception, in protest to the snooty Harvard professors who tried to correct the townies.

@MG-ln1yw 3 года назад

Also Sweden, called "Vevlira".

@jpardue 14 лет назад

I find this instrument most impressive and a complete surprise, another great reason I watch TED's videos. The presentation by Caroline is brief and elegant, we get a quick sample of some music, and a rare listen to Basque vocals. Totally outstanding, an interesting peek into musical antiquity, and one of the wonders brought to me by the internet and a bit of computer technology. Bravo, Caroline Phillips and TED for enlightening me and expanding my awareness.

@TheLaughingOut 14 лет назад

In my experience, an instrument sounds so much more beautiful when I know how it works. Thank you TEDtalks!

@KawhackitaRag 11 лет назад

A hurdy-gurdy is a stringed bagpipe. That can be either a put-down or a boost-up depending upon whether or not you like bagpipes and whether or not you like hurdy-gurdies.

@net_spider 2 года назад

There is also sympathetic strings. Kinda new on Hurdy Gurdys, but the idea is that the whole instrument is vibrating while in use... so why not harness that vibration into sound? These strings aren't located on the wheel and instead line the body of the instrument on either side of it (usually 3 or 4 grouped together on either side of the instrument for a total of 6 to 8 sympathetic strings). These strings are typically quieter than the other strings, but help amplify and compliment the sounds being created.

@FitZhurdygurdy Год назад

Yep, sympathetic strings are just to add tone and a slight reverb effect to the gurdy. They've been a feature of French gurdies since about the 1700's and usually come in a set of 4. Probably inspired by the viola d'amore.

@DeadWhiteButterflies 14 лет назад

I love her voice. I always was intrigued by the instrument. It's nice to see something like this. Makes me want one now!

@DylanFanification 10 лет назад

Absolutely wonderful! I love the hurdy-gurdy. Mummers Dance by Loreena Mckennitt inspired me to seek out this instrument!

@dslkjvoxicuyhgl4554 5 лет назад

Wow, haven't heard that song, or any Loreena Mckennitt in YEARS. Now I gotta listen to The Highwayman. Song always game me goosebumps in the middle, like no other song. Had no idea that was the Hurdy Gurdy, thought it was a cello or something.

@janelangford2693 2 года назад

LOREENA MCKENNIT YES

@eriklenh 10 лет назад

Very nice. But its indeed also player in Germany ("Drehleier")

@MrFair 12 лет назад

Yes, I also found that quite suprising. Especially since there are a lot of modern german folk bands nowadays who play the hurdy-gurdy.

@BRIERFOX 11 лет назад

what a beautiful voice and a great talent.....love the hurdy gurdy.

@KawhackitaRag 11 лет назад

I don't know if it's the "only instrument" played using a rotating rosined wheel and a crank... there were keyboard instruments in the 1500s and 1600s which did a similar thing, named "geigenwerk", "viola organista", and "bogenclavier". In the 19th century, the Kaufman family came up with the "Harmonichord". However I would agree with her that the hurdy-gurdy is the only really PORTABLE such instrument, much in the way a guitar is more portable than an (acoustic) piano!

@eddygonzalez6018 4 года назад

Love the sound of Euskaldunak been spoken.

@P00P0STER0US 14 лет назад

Neat instrument, it's amazing the many ways clever people have devised to create unique sounds.

@nathanvanmiddlesworthmedia844 10 лет назад

The buzzing bridge is also used on Tromba Marina,but...I wouldn't expect many people to know that! :D

@RyanRancidStaines 8 лет назад

WOW!!!! amazing I also want one now ive alway loved medieval music

@Snuffsis 14 лет назад

Tbh, the rolex commercial at the end was better than the tedtalk itself, anyone agrees?

@Dice-Gamble 7 лет назад

Black Sails brought me here. Love her intro and subsequent performance as well

@lauralairose5164 8 лет назад

I want a Hurdy Gurdy!

@mythocrat 8 лет назад

+Lauralai Elizalove me tooo! :'(

@Zeagods-CyberShadow 4 года назад

Also to

@BrickDevourer 4 года назад

Same but they are 1200 minimum :(

@journeytorainbownights 4 года назад

@@BrickDevourer buy a Nerdy Gurdy, you assemble it yourself and it costs like 300

@BrickDevourer 4 года назад

@@journeytorainbownights now that's something I can actually afford

@DeathMetalDerf 8 месяцев назад

Whenever I think of the music this thing creates it usually comes to me in a sad-sounding, droning, minor key kind of way. I've never really heard "happy" sounding music in a major key come from a hurdy-gurdy. Now I want one to add to my collection of musical instruments I can't play but own anyway.

@journeyer58 14 лет назад

@luddomatic TED means Technology, Entertainment and Design, meaning all three can and should be talked about. TED has become a major source of lectures for me. They show the range of people and their causes. Thanks TED for the breadth and depth of lectures on all meaningful causes.

@CodyAllenmusic 14 лет назад

I love me a good Hurdy Gurdy. They are used a lot in viking music too.

@christophermontoya5526 Год назад

At one point, I was trying to learn the French language. After practicing some basic words with a Rosetta Stone program, I attempted to read a French version of The Count of Monte Cristo. I saw the word vjel and consulted my French translation dictionary which told me vjel meant hurdy gurdy which, of course, was no help since I didn't know what a hurdy gurdy was. I'm building a ugears working toy model of one now. The instructions have tabs and ugears has tabs for it on RU-vid.

@098anne 14 лет назад

I love this instrument! The sound stirs my blood. Reminds me a bit of bagpipes. Love love love!

@Nyckelharpsmusik Год назад

Nice played and intressing explanations about musikhistory. I play the swedish Keyharp=(Nyckelharpa) .

@jozefkovac2806 9 лет назад

You forget ot mantion hungarian verzion of hurdy-gurdy, so called Tekerő Lant.

@lora_mist8928 11 месяцев назад

It’s like a string instrument that looked at all the others and was just like, YES

@nonalolagirl 14 лет назад

I think this is interesting. I want to play one

@KawhackitaRag 11 лет назад

Some people like the drones, some people hate the drones. Some people like the "dog" effect (buzz-saw sound), and some people (myself included) hate it. I have yet to meet someone who doesn't like the sound of a Hurdy-Gurdy with the drones and dog turned off, played by a real virtuoso, a sensitive musician. Then, it sounds closer to a viola or violin. I really liked this lady's performance, but even if you didn't like her, check out Matthias Loibner, who plays the instrument differently.

@microtonalist 7 лет назад

Was used also in Czechia and Slovakia, called NINERA (Ninyera)

@fnersch3367 5 лет назад

Bowed instruments were introduced in to Europe about 1000 years ago from the Middle East. The hurdy gurdy followed soon after. The Bizantines got violin like instruments from the khans who in turn got them from China.

@MrKDB001 9 лет назад

Misinformation: the hurdy gurdy is NOT the only wheeled string. there are at least two other traditional and several modern wheeled string instruments. By modern I am including one Da Vinci invented in the early 1500s.

@shiningarmor2838 8 лет назад

My favorite is the wheelharp

@nowotnik 8 лет назад

+MrKDB001 Misinformation: It wasn't "invented" by Da Vinci - bowing wheel idea was around since the XI C. and the instrument you are referring to is the bowed clavier, built in Germany and Netherlands in XVII c. as an experimental contraption. Da Vinci might have had the similar idea sketched but never got to build anything like that. It never got even close to the popularity of hurdy-gurdy and remained merely as an abandoned invention. Off course now, that the hurdy-gurdy is making its comeback, everyone is combining bowing wheel, keyboards, parts etc. and building their own cross-overs, which from the taxonomic point of view doesn't count in this discussion.

@makesquash 5 лет назад

There's also a Pakistani instrument that's pretty simelar, it has a fretboard instead of keys.

@marcosPRATA918 8 лет назад

Excelente apresentação. O Organistrum é um antecessor do Hurdy-gurdy, era tocado por duas pessoas.

@secretarykilkennychoir7137 5 месяцев назад

On your map, please distinguish the Republic of Ireland from the U.K. Happy Saint Patrick's Day. Great tone.

@MetroCammellDMUs 5 лет назад

the Hurdy-Gurdy is used for the Music in the TV series Black Sails. definately creates the sound for Pirates

@livinginthepast3 14 лет назад

I think this could have been a fantastic talk, but I'm not sure she was the person to do it. There are some brilliant luthiers who could speak much more articulately on the topic and kicked this up to another level entirely. Oh well, HGs are always interesting...Not sure I like the design of this HG - reminds me of a muffler. But she plays well enough and sings nicely.

@Duncan_Idaho_Potato 14 лет назад

Hurdy gurdy turns up in the most unlikely places. For example, a Metallica song: Low Man's Lyric, from the album ReLoad.

@KawhackitaRag 11 лет назад

I must also add the "Wheelharp" to the list of keyboard-operated bowed-string instruments (acoustic instruments). This instrument is a new invention/refinement and is built by Antiquity Music in Calfiornia.

@KawhackitaRag 11 лет назад

Speaking of rotating rosined wheels, the Mills Violano-Virtuoso automatic violin player uses these for bows. They built at least one custom instrument with retractable keyboards for hand-playing (which exists), and had the "Mills Melody Violins" commercially available, which also featured two keyboards which could play four violins (no examples of this model are known today, unfortunately). I think is is not too hard to connect a MIDI keyboard to a MIDI-equipped Violano-Virtuoso.

@rustyjones7908 10 лет назад

Show of hand: Who here wandered to this video after listening to Eluveitie?

@finfan7 9 лет назад

Arcane led me here.

@MrKDB001 9 лет назад

+Rusty Jones them and Guilhem Desq.

@Skiamakhos 7 лет назад

Nah, came here from Patty Gurdy & Stormseeker :-)

@xerospacious4024 7 лет назад

ski, same

@edi9892 7 лет назад

Guess not. Faun, Omnia, or Patty Gurdy may be the cause.

@EclecticSceptic 13 лет назад

This is great! I'd never seen or heard of that instrument.

@Dangbroo 4 года назад

in poland it's also a thing, it's called a lira korbowa which translates directly to crank lyre

@Yanto-Bardic 3 года назад

This is Fascinating.

@piper2000ca 14 лет назад

Generally I don't care much for the "Entertainment" part of TED, but that one was really cool, and informative.

@cn9630 6 лет назад

I WOULD SOOOOO LOVE TO HAVE THIS ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS INSTRUMENT

@BirdWhisperer46 2 года назад

Only about $4000

@livinginthepast3 14 лет назад

@jay81rd I think capos can be used as a way to do play in other keys. Not familiar with how they work, but I read it somewhere...

@HimmiJoe 14 лет назад

Sweet, I want one of those! Very interesting looking instrument.

@mrhearse777 5 лет назад

When I was at school , our teachers were never this beautiful , or interesting!

@ieatkids03 9 месяцев назад

My friends made fun of me for wanting to play this instrument but after really getting into cellar darling i think it sounds totally magical

@mushroom6097 8 месяцев назад

Ur friends sound like assholes

@chronoporter 14 лет назад

Check out this Swiss metal band by the name of Eluveitie. They have a Hurdy-gurdy player!

@guidi2005 14 лет назад

Awesome i want one.

@KlaxontheImpailr 4 года назад

I can't help but smile at this :)

@astrophonix 14 лет назад

Beautiful sound!

@rotomon 14 лет назад

Probably my most favorite instrument besides a Nycleharpa

@helmsleyy 6 лет назад

Thanks !

@Gilgamesh417 14 лет назад

that basque song starts off so haunting

@MountMonty 14 лет назад

I need one of those.

@MelloGee33 Год назад

The sound of that thing makes me want to get up and start doing a medieval jig in a pair of leotards and leather boots. 😂

@VortexMotiveVision 14 лет назад

@andresico2 : Some of the people claiming to be ETA conduct abhorrent activities, but ETA themselves are simply freedom fighters.

@totoro81791 11 лет назад

Lol thanks. I actually got a personal message from Caroline Phillips telling me who the luthier was =)

@willowtreephoto 14 лет назад

wonderful!

@SuperWasweissichdenn 11 лет назад

Of course!

@hartleybanton6058 8 лет назад

wonderful

@leimo25 14 лет назад

Pretty cool thing. Haven't heard it.

@MsThatguywiththeface 11 лет назад

Celtic is pronounced with a K sound, not an S sound. I know this because the root word is the Latin "Celtae," a corruption of the Greek "Keltoi."

@anaisabelgarridomartinez7946 5 лет назад

Beautiful song in Euskara. Eskerrik asko

@RandoPandaSmiles 14 лет назад

Shure SM58 FTW!

@ragnarocks0 14 лет назад

@bigshel99 You are free to skip it , so i see no reason to complain.

@jackjackattack9137 9 лет назад

My grandmother had one, RIP granny. I wish to get one myself, not to play. Still too painful, but to take to guitar center and tell them to restring and tune it ! I'd modify mine though, remove the crank and install pulley and hook to sewing machine motor. Turn it on before I go to work for my dog. Bet that would stop him from barking at night while I try to sleep !

@nyser1 14 лет назад

I loved it!

@Damdenn 14 лет назад

pretty cool stuff. Makes me wonder where I could get one and start to learn to play.

@angelwhite 14 лет назад

@yavanna1969 The E in TED stands for Entertainment. They have _always_ had videos like this, and calling it "crap" without explaining why is a pathetic criticism, because it can be made regardless of merit.

@SuperSuplex 4 года назад

5:16 apparently even george lucas likes the hurdy gurdy

@gspahr 14 лет назад

@luddomatic Perhaps it's your screen, nothing happening on my laptop screen, but I understand what you mean, I saw this happen on many cathode-ray-tube screens.

@Stratophony 14 лет назад

Eluveitie - Of Fire, Wind & Wisdom

@maaderllin 12 лет назад

@withoutnameorplace In french it's pronounced Seltic, so it's an error french speaker are often making.

@arifreeman 14 лет назад

The Tromba Marina has a similar buzzing bridge.

@lynxu525 7 лет назад

太迷人了！谢谢讲演者，也谢谢TED！

@ranhawes 14 лет назад

All you detractors must not be musicians. This is very interesting. I'm sure this instrument is very difficult to play and you have to give kudos to those who can play it! It also takes me way back to my [much] younger years when The Hurdy-Gurdy Man by Donovan was a hit. Look it up. If you don't like or are not interested in a certain subject covered on TED, don't watch it. It's simple. No need to complain about it.

@adj789 14 лет назад

Here comes the hurdy gurdy man now singing songs of love...

@Visceral3D 14 лет назад

sounds awesome :O

@Resegy Год назад

In italian Ghironda with hard "g" because "gh" is always hard in italian

@livinginthepast3 14 лет назад

@xxxFaustusxxx Check out Reincarnatus here on youtube. Not so much metal, but sort of a progressive rock feel featuring gurdys, nyckelharpas, and an assortment of other period instruments...

@Jonny---nm4lw 5 лет назад

That is the most beautiful hurdy Gordy of seen

@wassholm 14 лет назад

I don't have a problem with this being on TED. It is entertainment, after all. However I find it strange that the person selected to talk about the hurdy-gurdy isn't more knowledgable on the subject, or a better player, for that matter. The hurdy-gurdy is alive and well in the scandinavian countries, and there are quite a few great players around.

@arjantjeee 8 лет назад

She forgot that it's also traditional to Belgium Netherlands and germany

@nowotnik 8 лет назад

+Arjan h. and Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine and even Sweden

@rducky01 8 лет назад

She also tried say that all of Ireland is part of the UK. haha...

@Caradepato 5 лет назад

And Portugal

@VortexMotiveVision 14 лет назад

@tomroutledge : Well, seeing as you are a fireman, fair enough. You've no doubt earned a right to moan about things. Here's to Firemen!!! Personally, I'm not a huge fan of this sort of stuff on TED, but I do recognise that it fits the remit to some degree, and whilst it may not blow MY mind, someone creative out there might get some real inspiration from it.

@giorgiodifrancesco4590 4 года назад

The real name of this instrument in italian is "ghironda", with "ghi", that sounds like the french and spanish "gui". Gironda, in italian is not an instrument, but a french region.

@ajhurliman 14 лет назад

TED - Technology Entertainment Design... well this is the entertainment part so if you only want technology and design just watch those videos.

@jussts 14 лет назад

Okay, I want one now.

@niriop 8 лет назад

Up to five years to build an instrument which a violin and/or a harmonium could outplay both in sound and ease in playing.

@aandredaandred3378 3 года назад

2:16 Huh, what? UK, Spain, France, Italy? I'd argue hurdy-gurdy is a most prominent folk instrument in Hungary, Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. Also, hurdy-gurdy is not the only instrument with a buzzing bridge. Tromba marina features it as well.

@FitZhurdygurdy Год назад

Central France and Galicia definitely have the most prolific gurdy traditions, Hungary and Ukraine are high on the list too tho.

@totoro81791 13 лет назад

That is one of the most beautiful hurdy gurdies that I've seen. Anyone know who the maker of that hurdy gurdy is?