April 2012
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There's another app for that... →
Hurdy Gurdy - Remix, play and enjoy.  Based on three songs from Bidaia’s last album, Duo, this app allows you to play the hurdy-gurdy by moving your iPhone or iPad and create your own mix that can be saved to MP3 format.
Apr 9th
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Hurdy-Gurdy App →
It had to happen.  Play the hurdy-gurdy on your iPhone.  There’s an app for that…
Apr 8th
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The Hurdy-Gurdy Band →
Website of “the Hurdy-Gurdy Band” - a hurdy-gurdy duo.  Features a lot of nice historical images of the hurdy-gurdy - but beware the homepage of the site launches into some unrequested hurdy-gurdy playing, so you may want to turn the volume down on your computer!
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Hurdy gurdy Worshop in Bloomington, IN. USA
Dear Friends, Our last reminder about the Bloomington, IN hurdy gurdy workshop in April 20-22nd, with Robert Green, Juan Wijngaard and Tom Lozano. The deadline for subscription is April 9th, 2012. http://earlymusicinmotion.org/EMIM/Hurdy-Gurdy_Workshops.html Best, Tom Lozano
Apr 5th
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What's he building in there?
Blog following the progress of a hurdy-gurdy being constructed from scratch, from plans. More here.
Apr 5th
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Le Chateau d'Ars
Festival of traditional musics and folk dances, 13-15 July 2012 La Châtre, France Instrument-makers, concerts, folk dances and a unique atmosphere, the festival has become THE meeting place of traditional music in Europe.  A unique show of instrument makers which welcomes 130 instrument makers from the whole world presenting and selling their instruments: bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, accordions, wind...
Apr 5th
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Lark Camp music library
The Lark Camp music festival publishes a set of traditional French tunes suitable for the hurdy-gurdy.  You can download it here.
Apr 5th
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Over the Water - 2010 Dance Tunes
Over the Water Hurdy-gurdy festival is an annual week-long gathering of hurdy-gurdy players in September of each year in Washington state.  As well as offering a fantastic event, they also publish the music for a standard set of bourrees, schottisches, valses and other tunes used as the basis for their jam sessions.  You can download PDF or ABC versions of the tunes here.
Apr 5th
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Drehleier-Muzik
A collection of traditional and modern tunes selected for the hurdy-gurdy as part of Ina Lemm’s resource site for her hurdy-gurdy tuition DVD. See here.
Apr 5th
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Richard Robinson’s Tunebook
A great collection of folk and traditional tunes from the UK and Europe.  His collections include: Traditional tunes from Ireland, England, Scotland, Scandanavia, France and further afield S.E. European tunes N.W. England tunes Collections from old books and manuscripts, including:   Aird’s Airs   The Winder manuscripts   Goulding and d’Almaine’s 24 Country Dances for 1826   William...
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