Its worse if you look at the orgin. The hurdy gurdy used to be a huge instrument for churches needing 2 people opperating it, and a guy looked at it and went "i want a handheld version"
Oh, cool instrument. Maybe i should give it a try. * Checks the price. Spits his tea over the laptop. * Guess I'll just stay subscribed and listen to the hurdy gurdy here.
There's also the option of building one, which I hear is cheaper. You can find resources on the web ranging from blueprints to how-to guides. I hear it's easier than it seems to build one, but I've not yet gathered the materials required to do it myself so I can't say for sure.
Patty's instrument must be especially expensive because of all the electronic stuff on it. In France, you can find acoustic hurdy gurdys for about 2000€ or even less.
Being a classical guitarist. I fell in love with the hurdy gurdy" I'll be honest with you" I thought it was a bag pipe whenever I heard it. It even sounded like a fiddle" but for something that's been around for centuries. It's definitely gotten my attention. It's on my bucket list of things to get and learn to play. Thanks for the rundown of the instrument's schematics.
Until I saw your video for "The Longing" just yesterday I don't think I'd ever even heard of the hurdy-gurdy. Furthermore you made it look so easy when you played it. In any event I feel like I've learned something, and something cool at that, so thank you.
you should make more of your original songs, like "Gurdy's Green". I love that song and hope to hear more of you soon :3 danke für die Infos und weiter so!
I would definitely like to see more songs like Gurdy's Green, but mainly because I am always looking for good tunes to steal and play on my recorder! :-)
I live in the US and I have never seen this instrument until I came across your videos. I listen to a lot of celtic music so 1 of your videos came across as a suggestion and I clicked on it. I am SO fascinated with this instrument! I'd love to learn how to play one day! Of course, finding the instrument itself can be difficult here too. Keep making videos! I'd love to learn all I can and enjoy the sound of the beautiful instrument!!
I bought my hurdy 2 weeks ago. An amazing instrument! Your is more complex. I have only 3 strings (burdon, melodic and trumpet), historical from Jan Malisz workshop. Grettings from Poland! Your music is awesome!
I became curious about what Donovan was singing about. The hurdy gurdy Man. I was surprised to find that it was an instrument and the words to Donovan's hurdy gurdy Man are not the kind of words it would expect about a hurdy gurdy Man. I was puzzled by the lyrics but they were very poetic and Donovan style of singing that song was fantastic
I'm kinda just taking everyone else's word for it that there's any advantage to instruments being in tune. I've actually never heard what "out of tune" sounds like, because being far enough out of tune for me to tell a difference pretty much just means you're playing, for example, a D instead of a C. It's called "severe congenital amusia"... basically, the average person, with no training, can readily tell the difference between notes a half-step apart (the difference between a C and a C-sharp), even in somewhat noisy environment, and can train their ear to tell a much smaller difference than that; without ear training, closest I could tell apart with no background noise was about 2 full steps, and even spending a semester training my ear with a musician friend to get through a music appreciation class inexplicably required for my mechanical engineering degree, I never got it to within 2 half-steps. This means I miss out on a lot of tonal complexity, but it also makes things like the hurdy gurdy, which have a lot of other stuff going on, sound a lot more interesting to me than most other music, because there's points of interest there that I'm not missing out on (same effect also applies to songs that rely more on rhythmic complexity over tonal, or to the sort of lyrical song where the lyrics are carrying the song anyway).
I thought my wife's autoharp was complex with 37 strings and fifteen chord buttons. The Gurdy is amazing. I had never heard one played until I happened across your videos. Thanks for sharing. Also, the red hair and blue eyes are wonderful. Now subscribed.
Cool video, I've been interested in this instrument since hearing Eluveitie/Anna Murphy, and now your songs, it sounds great! Look forward to an album!
Very nice to see your beautiful instrument. I like to see that modern artist took old instruments which developed centuries ago picked them up modernize them, keep the original sound and use them. Also nice that Arjen ask you in his new project, good luck and enjoy your collaboration with this musical genie.
The keyboard presses tangents. And I have never played an instrument in my life...But now I am thinking I would like to try a hurdy-gurdy. It looks very intriguing. Plus your music is awesome
Thank you very much, this introduction is very interesting! I'd be intersted to hear about the different techniques of playing (with or without the wheel in action, where you can tap, clack, pinch, you name it), and also maybe a word on : how to get one, the differnent qualities and according prices, tuning and live performances possibilities and limitations, and so on... This instrument is fascinating :) Keep on the good work :)
I found your music and it is the first time I every see or heard a Hurdy Gurdy, I like the sound and love your singing, you are a pretty Woman and I love your red hair!
I am finding that almost all my recent music purchases are of RU-vidrs... The music is so cutting edge and well done. I now have all your music that is available from Amazon USA.
Hi Patty, hope you're well. Aaron here, from Nashville Tennessee. I recently discovered your music from the RU-vid video suggestions and I absolutely love your playing and singing! I apologize if you answered any of these questions in a previous QA video, but here I go. :-) 1. Before you began playing, what endeared you to the hurdy gurdy? 2. What is one of your favorite songs to play on the hurdy gurdy? 3. What is the most difficult song you ever played (or tried to play) on the hurdy gurdy?
4:33 Wow, you have amazing eyes and a great accent. ;) I have to say, this is my first time hearing of this instrument, and I play a few already. Very nice, and great job on your music.
Patty Gurdy I have a serious question! How incredibly beautiful are you!!???? If you made a 10min video of just you making eye contact with the camera ,I would pay for the privilege of looking into those Amazing eyes! By the way love the hurry hurry,knew an old man who had one when I was little.
Your music is one of the nicest and most interesting new music I have heard in a long time. i would love to hear more of your music and the music you play in your metal band because I love metal.
I can totally get why you have a tuner. They say of guitarists "They spend 90% of their time tuning them and 10% of their time playing out of tune". So being able to tune regularly throughout your set is cool ;)
Ha! That tuner got me. I was also wondering what it was. As soon as you took it off, it was like... oh its a clamp on tuner, like for my guitar! So obvious in retrospect. Danke.
Hi Patty,This instrument is a first for me, I've never seen one before!!Listening to both you & it was amazing, I really enjoyed hearing your music & would like to see & hear more!
only comment i wanna make is the fact that you play a hurdy gurdy like a seasoned pro and that you have a gorgeous voice and that your incredibly gorgeous
Thanks for the tour of the instrument. I had some general ideas about it, but you have provided some great insight. There is a Hurdy Gurdy association here in the Puget Sound region of the state of Washington, USA, but I've only heard them perform classical pieces. It's great that you are able to adapt it and your style of playing to a metal band. How long did it take you to learn to play it; AND how long did it take you to become proficient on it? Are you self-taught, or did you take lessons or find a mentor?
Should we tell all the people who have no idea what we are talking about what the joke is? Actually I just checked, all you need to do is search "let me show you it's features" and Joerg appears like magic. He made it to full Meme status.
hi just found your videos accidentally and i love them i have never heard one played before glad you're my first you are amazing I have known about a heargerder before never seen one till now WOW love your music will scribe thanks
Fascinating instrument and player... The only thing I knew coming in was the tuner! Ha.. Making me want to invest in one. And did you say METAL!? Wow. That has to be extremely interesting, to say the least...
Ok, this might help save some headaches when people search makers websites; Melody strings get called Chanterelles, the drones are split into lower Bourdon and higher Mouche. I just had to research it out of interest after checking UK makers websites. Trompettes are the highest drone string and make the rhythmic buzzing. Great video btw but I would like to know what style of Hurdy-gurdy/Drehleier you have? The nearest to style I have seen is a UK makers artist style or Lute back, but I'm only going off what I can see
That tuner bit, Ok just saying that was soooooo cute. Really though, if I worked in a music store, second hand or new no matter, and a parent was buying a guitar or stringed instrument of any sort I would so be pushing a tuner on them. Not some cheap thing either. Brings me to a question for you, how difficult is a Hurdy Gurdy to tune?
Thanks for all the information! I was watching the other videos and could only wonder what was going on. I didn't realize your gurdy had so many strings. How many of them do you actually play simultaneously at any given time?
I've never that instrument before. Looks very odd and difficult to play. But I've gotta say, it sounds really good and she is great with it. Hurray for creativity, talent and spirit of inovation!
Mesûd Becirmanî western I think. It's predecessor is thought to have been either middle Eastern or Western the historians are still trying to figure that part out but the first visual depiction was in spain plus the Celtic sound makes me think western.
Interesting, there's much more to it, than I could see before. Could you please elaborate a bit more on how it works? Did I understand it correctly, that the keys shorten the melody-string? Why do you have the strings left and right of the melody-strings? How do the rythm-strings work? - and how can you switch their pitch?
Four stupid questions that may have been asked. 1) Are there pegs to tune the strings like on violin ? 2) Is body of the Hurdy Gurdy empty to resonate or are there different chambers 3) Does the flat piece covering the metal "keys" have any function other than as a palm rest. 4) If you do not know the name of the part in English, what is the name of the part and which language ?
I am enthralled by well designed machines and people who operate them as if they were an extension of themselves, both criteria met here. Sorry if I offended by referring to your instrument as a machine but with that many parts working in sync, what else could it be. And it also sounds beautiful.
Where could someone buy a Hurdy-Gurdy? I love the sound of this instrument and been trying to find a seller. Oh and of course hearing you play it makes me more in love with the sound
Hey, I'm new here. I think the intro music on your videos (where your name and socials fade in) is pretty neat, I was curious if it came from a longer full piece or if it was a short piece made just for the intros. Thanks!
How did you ever get into this instrument? My very first introduction was from Loreena McKennitt and her album Nights from the Alhambra, was amazed by this instrument and loved the sound it made.
