Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all hurdy-gurdy players around the world! May all your dreams come true … and may you achieve the coup gras you always wanted!
Halsway Carol (composed by Nigel Eaton) performed by duo Carlos Quintá on accordian and Óscar Fernández on hurdy-gurdy.
More funky fiddle and hurdy-gurdy goodness from Gregory Jolivet.
A clip of Pep Massana and Ramon Elias’s organistrum in action with an octaved violin. A free improvisation about Los Set Gotxs of Libre Vermenl at Sant Pau Vell, Montserrat.
Interesting short video on an organistrum by Pep Massana and Ramon Elias. It shows a new organistrum system can plays 20 strings with 44 notes.
Dante Ferrara plays Purcell Minuets, from ‘Musick’s Hand-maid’ printed in 1689.
The Duellists. A tune written and played by Nigel Eaton, performed here on a double keyboard Hurdy Gurdy in G by Chris Eaton.
Hurdy-gurdy gets modern…
Part 5 of a series demonstrating a unique hurdy gurdy, the “Aachen”, and explaining its properties. This instrument has been developed and made according as a medieval type hurdy gurdy by Chris Allen and Sabina Kormylo. This part focuses on the repetoir, range and available accidentals.
Part 4 of a series demonstrating this unique hurdy gurdy, the “Aachen”, and explaining its properties. This part looks at the string layout for modal music. This instrument has been developed and made as a medieval type hurdy gurdy by Chris Allen and Sabina Kormylo.
Part 3 of a series demonstrating a unique hurdy gurdy, the “Aachen”, and explaining its properties. This instrument has been developed and made in the style of a medieval type hurdy gurdy by Chris Allen and Sabina Kormylo.
Part 1 of a series demonstrating a unique hurdy gurdy, the “Aachen”, and explaining its properties. This instrument has been developed and made in a medieval style by Chris Allen and Sabina Kormylo.
Nigel Eaton plays “Swan at Upton”. Great tune. Great pub. Great news that it’s on a forthcoming album - “Eminent Victorians”.
Gilles Chabenat solo at Zona da Zanfona 2012, VIII international hurdy-gurdy meeting organized by aCentral Folque in Rianxo, Galiza. Gilles plays solo with effect pedals and loop station his own composition “Carmin” and a traditional mazurka “L’enternaire” for a Tour à tour concert on 20th April 2012.
Documentary piece on Donald Heller - the hurdy-gurdy man of Boston.
